Cheap wage labour : race and gender in the fisheries of British Columbia / Alicja Muszynski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Muszyńska, Alicja.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fishery processing industries--British Columbia--Employees.

Fishery processing industries.

Wages--Fish trade--British Columbia.

Wages.

Minorities--Employment--British Columbia.

Minorities.

Women fish trade workers--British Columbia.

Women fish trade workers.

Labor theory of value--British Columbia.

Labor theory of value.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Race and gender in the fisheries of British Columbia

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Cheap Wage Labour is the first analysis of shore work and shoreworkers in British Columbia from the 1860s to the mid-1980s. Muszynski provides an interpretation of events that led to the creation of a cheap wage labour force of shoreworkers, their organization within the framework of the fishermen's union (UFAWU), and, as a consequence, the steady decline of their numbers until today they represent only a small portion of the labour force. She looks at factors contributing to the destruction of First Nations culture and economy, such as the displacement of aboriginal peoples from key fishing sites and work in the salmon canneries, and examines the structure and patterns of Chinese and Japanese immigration and the development of the capitalist class and the white working class. Cheap Wage Labour situates the history of B.C. shoreworkers within the much larger and more complex historical enterprise of industrialization, patriarchy, and colonialism and provides keen insights into the current fisheries crisis on the West Coast.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Maps""; ""Introduction: The Problematic""; ""I Marx's Labour Theory of Value: A Critique""; ""2 Patriarchy and Capitalism""; ""3 The First Nations, Property Rights, and Salmon Canning""; ""4 The Dialectics of Cheap Wage Labour""; ""5 Organized Resistance: The United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union""; ""6 State, Labour, and Capital""; ""7 Conclusion: Marx's Labour Theory of Value Reconsidered""; ""Appendix: J.H. Todd & Sons Ltd""; ""Bibliography""; ""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 bibliographical references (p. [287]-300) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-85375-9

9786612853753

0-7735-6582-5

OCLC:

732600789