After the war, waterfront employers embarked on an ambitious program - welfare capitalism - to ease industrial relations, increase the efficiency of the port, and, ultimately, recondition longshoremen themselves. Andrew Parnaby considers these reforms as a microcosm of the process of accommodation between labour and capital that affected Canadian society as a whole in the 1920s and 1930s. By creating a new sense of entitlement among waterfront workers, one that could not be satisfied by employers during the Great Depression, welfare capitalism played an important role in the cultural transformation that took place after the Second World War.
Encompassing labour and gender history, aboriginal studies, and the study of state formation, "Citizen Docker" examines the deep shift in the aspirations of working people, and the implications that shift had on Canadian society in the interwar years and beyond.
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After the war, waterfront employers embarked on an ambitious program - welfare capitalism - to ease industrial relations, increase the efficiency of the port, and, ultimately, recondition longshoremen themselves. Andrew Parnaby considers these reforms as a microcosm of the process of accommodation between labour and capital that affected Canadian society as a whole in the 1920s and 1930s. By creating a new sense of entitlement among waterfront workers, one that could not be satisfied by employers during the Great Depression, welfare capitalism played an important role in the cultural transformation that took place after the Second World War.
Encompassing labour and gender history, aboriginal studies, and the study of state formation, "Citizen Docker" examines the deep shift in the aspirations of working people, and the implications that shift had on Canadian society in the interwar years and beyond.
Imprint | University of Toronto Press |
Country of origin | Canada |
Series | Canadian Social History Series |
Release date | June 2008 |
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First published | June 2008 |
Authors | Andrew Parnaby |
Dimensions | 228 x 139 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Hardcover |
Pages | 304 |
Edition | 2 Rev Ed |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8020-9056-0 |
Barcode | 9780802090560 |
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LSN | 0-8020-9056-7 |