Bush Workers and Bosses Logging in Northern Ontario 1900-1980 / Ian Radforth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Radforth, Ian, Author.

Series:

Social history of Canada ; 42.

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Loggers--Ontario--History--20th century.

Loggers.

Ontario.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (369 pages).

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

PICTURE CREDITS

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Northern Ontario and the forest industry

2. A seasonal labour force, 1900-1945

3. Bush work, 1900-1945

4. Cutting costs

5. In the camps

6. Bushworkers in struggle, 1919-1935

7. Building the Lumber and Saw

8. Management responds: new recruits, camp improvements, and training schemes

9. Management responds: mechanization

10. Mechanized bush work

11. Bushworkers respond to mechanization

Conclusion

APPENDICES

NOTE ON SOURCES

NOTES

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

ISBN:

1-4875-7467-3

OCLC:

1129213717