R SOC355 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Wage Labour, Corporatism, Cointegration

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Rural Sociology
• Course: R SOC355
• Professor: John Parkins

Document Summary

Between the time of confederation (1867) and the beginning of the second. Country transformed from a rural to an urban society and from an agricultural to an industrial economy. By 1971, canada has twice as many farm households than centuries before, and the number of acres being farmed in canada grew six-fold. The promise of arable lands drew europeans to canada. Given land so that they could support themselves by agriculture and to draw in settlers. Issue: rural environments of land were only marginally suited for agriculture: long and cold winters, short growing season, poor soil. However, a wealth of resources was provided for home consumption, for barter or sale within the community, or for sale in international markets: resources can be tended, grown, gathered, killed, or extracted, ie. Vegetables, hay, cattle, firewood, deer, pigs, fish, maple syrup. Industrialization: large amount of workforce needed in logging, fishing, mining, and other rural industrial enterprises.