Colonization and Community: The Vancouver Island Coalfield and the Making of the British Columbian Working Class
John D. Belshaw
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.
Godina:
2002
Izdanje:
1
Izdavač:
McGill-Queen's University Press
Jezik:
english
Strane:
351
ISBN 10:
0773570403
ISBN 13:
9780773570405
Serije:
McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History Ser.
Fajl:
PDF, 22.31 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2002