A deep exploration of the experience of work in Canada
Canada, A Working History describes the ways in which work has been performed in Canada from the pre-colonial period to the present day. Work is shaped by a wide array of influences, including gender, class, race, ethnicity, geography, economics, and politics. It can be paid or unpaid, meaningful or alienating, but it is always essential. The work experience led people to form unions, aspire to management roles, pursue education, form professional associations, and seek self-employment. Work is also often in our cultural consciousness: it is pondered in song, lamented in literature, celebrated in film, and preserved for posterity in other forms of art. It has been driven by technological change, governed by laws, and has been the cause of disputes and the means by which people earn a living in Canada’s capitalist economy.
Ennobling, rewarding, exhausting, and sometimes frustrating, work has helped define who we are as Canadians.
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Introduction
PART 1: EUROPEAN ARRIVAL TO CONFEDERATION
Chapter 1: Before and After Colonization
Chapter 2: Slavery
Chapter 3: Early Work Regulation
Chapter 4: European Employers and North American Workers
Chapter 5: European Conflicts and North American Consequences
Chapter 6: The War of 1812 and the United States
Chapter 7: The 1837 Rebellions, Responsible Government, and Worker Control
Chapter 8: Domestic Work and Hard Labour
Chapter 9: Colonial Living
Chapter 10: Professions, Institutions, and Work in Early Canada
PART II: CONFEDERATION TO THE 1930s
Chapter 12: Confederation to 1914
Chapter 13: The First World War
Chapter 15: The 1930s: Economic Turmoil and Social Unrest
Chapter 16: From Confederation to Global War
PART III: THE SECOND WORLD WAR TO THE 1960s
Chapter 17: The 1940s: Once More into the Breach
Chapter 18: The 1950s: Full-Time Jobs, Consumer Culture, and Another Economic Boom
Chapter 19: The 1960s: Cultural, Political, and Economic Change
Chapter 20: The 1940s to the 1960s: A Golden Era
PART IV: THE TUMULTUOUS 1970s AND 1980s
Chapter 21: Two Decades of Transformation: The Good and the Bad
Chapter 22: The 1970s: Goodbye to the 1960s
Chapter 23: The 1980s: Almost Everything Changes
Chapter 24: One Last Big Shift Before the 1990s
PART V: THE ANXIOUS 1990s AND 2000s
Chapter 25: The 1990s: THe End of the Post–Second World War
Chapter 26: The 2000s: A Few Winners and More Losers on the Job
PART VI: WORKING IN THE 21st CENTURY
Chapter 27: Work in Canada in the Early 2020s
Chapter 28: Retirement in Canada
Chapter 29: Will We Still Work?
Chapter 30: Surveillance and Control
Chapter 31: Coming Apart
Chapter 32: Coming Together
Looking Back, Looking Forward
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index
About the Author
Notes
Sobre o autor
Jason Russell has a Ph.D. in history from York University and is an associate professor at SUNY Empire State College in Buffalo, New York. He lives in London, Ontario.
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