Bush Workers and Bosses Logging in Northern Ontario 1900 - 1980

Radforth, Ian

ISBN 10: 0802066534 / ISBN 13: 9780802066534

Editore: University of Toronto Press, Toronto Canada, 1987

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336 pages. This is #42 in the Social History fo Canada series. "In this far ranging study of twentieth-century Ontario logging, Ian Radforth traces decades of transition, from the rough-and-ready days of the camp described above to the development of a highly mechanized and closeley managed industry." ; 6 x 9 ".

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Dati bibliografici

• Titolo: Bush Workers and Bosses Logging in Northern Ontario 1900 - 1980
• Editore: University of Toronto Press, Toronto Canada
• Data di pubblicazione: 1987
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0802066534
• ISBN 13: 9780802066534
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: Near Fine
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Flora & Gardening

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Riassunto

The lumberjack – freewheeling, transient, independent – is the stuff of countless Canadian tales and legends. He is also something of a dinosaur, a creature of the past, replaced by a unionized worker in a highly mechanized and closely managed industry. In this far-ranging study of the logging industry in twentieth-century Ontario, Ian Radforth charters the course of its transition and the response of its workers to the changes.

Among the factors he considers are technological development, changes in demography and the labour market, an emerging labour movement, new managerial strategies, the growth of a consumer society, and rising standards of living. Radforth has drawn on an impressive array of sources, including interviews and forestry student reports as well as a vast body of published sources such as The Labour Gazette, The Pulp and Paper Magazine of Canada, and The Canada Lumberman, to shed new light on trade union organization and on the role of ethnic groups in the woods work force.

The result is a richly detailed analysis of life on the job for logging workers during a period that saw the modernization not only of the work but of relations between the workers and the bosses.

Informazioni sull?autore

Ian Radforth is a professor emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Toronto.