The bunkhouse man : a study of work and pay in the camps of Canada, 1903-1914 / Edmund Bradwin ; with an introduction by Jean Burnet.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bradwin, Edmund W. (Edmund William), 1877-1954, author.

Contributor:

Burnet, Jean, writer of introduction.

Columbia University. Faculty of Political Science.

Series:

Social history of Canada.

The Social history of Canada

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor camps--Canada.

Labor camps.

Contract labor--Canada.

Contract labor.

Wages--Canada.

Wages.

Railroad construction workers--Canada.

Railroad construction workers.

Canada.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (267 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Ontario] : University of Toronto Press, 1972.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Journalists and poets, economists and political historians, have told the story of Canada's railways, but their accounts pay little attention to the workers who built them.€ The Bunkhouse Man €is the only study devoted to these men and their lives in construction camps.

Contents:

Frontmatter

An introduction

Contents

Preface

Introduction

1. The background of the navvy

2. The contract system on railway construction

3. Work and pay in isolated camps

4. Some ethnic groupings among campmen

5. When the campman becomes a contractor

6. Shacks and shack-men on railway construction

7. The medical system on frontier works

8. Some alternative employments for workers in camps

9. What constitutes real wages for the bunkhouse man?

10. What's wrong with the contract system?

11 Ottawa and the camps

12. The bunkhouse man and public opinion

13. The challenge of the migratory workers

Conclusion

Appendices

Backmatter

Notes:

"Life and labour in the northern work camps"--Cover.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4426-5076-1

1-4426-3238-0

OCLC:

929153518