Colonization and Community: The Vancouver Island Coalfield and the Making of the British Columbian Working Class - Couverture souple

Belshaw, John Douglas

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0773524037 ISBN 13 : 9780773524033

Editeur : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004

Synopsis

In Colonization and Community John Belshaw takes a new look at British Columbia's first working class, the men, women, and children beneath and beyond the pit-head. Beginning with an exploration of emigrant expectations and ambitions, he investigates working conditions, household wages, racism, industrial organization, gender, schooling, leisure, community building, and the fluid identity of the British mining colony, the archetypal west coast proletariat. By connecting the story of Vancouver Island to the larger story of Victorian industrialization, he delineates what was distinctive and what was common about the lot of the settler society. Belshaw breaks new ground, challenging the easy assumptions of transferred British political traditions, analyzing the colonial at the household level, and revealing the emergent communities of Vancouver Island as the cradle of British Columbian working-class culture.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

John Douglas Belshaw is on faculty at Thompson Rivers University - Open Learning, a consultant to the post-secondary sector, and the author of several books on BC history.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0773524037
• ISBN 13: 9780773524033
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384
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• Personne responsable: non disponible