On the job : confronting the labour process in Canada / edited by Craig Heron and Robert Storey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heron, Craig, Author.

Contributor:

Heron, Craig.

Storey, Robert H.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor--Canada--History.

Labor.

Industrial sociology--Canada--History.

Industrial sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (375 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1986.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The essays in this volume enhance our understanding of Canadians on the job. Focusing on specific industries and kinds of work, from logging and longshoring to restaurant work and the needle trades, the contributors consider such issues as job skill, mass production, and the transformation of resource industries. They raise questions about how particular jobs are structured and changed over time, the role of workers' resistance and trade unions in shaping the lives of workers, and the impact of technology. Together these essays clarify a fundamental characteristic shared by all labour processes: they are shaped and conditioned by the social, economic, and political struggles of labour and capital both inside and outside the workplace. They argue that technological change, as well as all the transformations in the workplace, must become a social process that we all control.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Contributors""; ""On the Job in Canada""; ""Dimensions of Paternalism: Discipline and Culture in Canadian Railway Operations in the 1850s""; ""Work Control, the Labour Process, and Nineteenth-Century Canadian Printers""; ""Contested Terrain: Workers' Control in the Cape Breton Coal Mines in the 1920s""; ""Keeping House in God's Country: Canadian Women at Work in the Home""; ""Skill and Gender in the Canadian Clothing Industry, 1890�1940""; ""Mechanization, Feminization, and Managerial Control in the Early Twentieth-Century Canadian Office""

""Work and Struggle in the Canadian Steel Industry, 1900�1950""""Logging Pulpwood in Northern Ontario""; ""On the Waterfront: Longshoring in Canada""; ""Life in a Fast-Food Factory""; ""Autoworkers on the Firing Line""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographies and index.

ISBN:

1-282-85093-8

9786612850936

0-7735-6134-X

OCLC:

1245679716