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12%OFFDavid Bright - The Limits of Labour: Class Formation and the Labour Movement in Calgary, 1883-1929 - 9780774806978 - V9780774806978
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The Limits of Labour: Class Formation and the Labour Movement in Calgary, 1883-1929

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Description for The Limits of Labour: Class Formation and the Labour Movement in Calgary, 1883-1929 Paperback. This work looks at class formation in western Canada. The author explores the various levels of class formation and identity in the years before World War I, arguing that Calgary's reputation as a centre of labour conservatism is an oversimplification in need of revision. Num Pages: 286 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB; JFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 0. Weight in Grams: 680.

In a few short decades before the First World War, Calgary was transformed from a frontier outpost into a complex industrial metropolis. With industrialization there emerged a diverse and equally complex working class. David Bright explores the various levels of class formation and class identity in the city to argue that Calgary’s reputation as a prewar centre of labour conservatism is in need of revision.

Bright also delineates the trials of the Calgary labour movement in the 1920s. Internal divisions and dissent prevented the movement from realizing the potential strength of the working class. Instead, even as local capitalism restructured itself, ... Read more

This failure left the labour movement unable to meet the challenge of the Great Depression. In part, at least, the demise of labour as a viable political alternative in Calgary paved the way for the rise of Social Credit.

Using Calgary as a model, The Limits of Labour reasserts the need to place class formation at the heart of the development of western Canada and provides an historical context to the renewed struggle of labour for social justice in the 1990s.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
286
Condition
New
Number of Pages
286
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774806978
SKU
V9780774806978
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About David Bright
David Bright teaches history at the University of Calgary and at Mount Royal College, Calgary.

Reviews for The Limits of Labour: Class Formation and the Labour Movement in Calgary, 1883-1929
Bright's well-crafted work contributes usefully to the fast-developing study of local labor history in western Canadian cities ... Recommended.
M. J. Moore
Choice
This book makes an important contribution to our understanding of the history of both Canadian labor and the Canadian West. It weaves together both a wealth of primary documents and secondary sources to fashion ... Read more

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