Colonization and community: the Vancouver Island coalfield and the making of the British Columbian working class

"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, r...

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Main Author: Belshaw, John Douglas (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Montréal [u.a.] McGill-Queen's University Press 2002
Series:McGill-Queenś studies in ethnic history Series 2 ; 15
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Summary:"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."--BOOK JACKET.
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-308) and index
Physical Description:xv, 320 p. ill., maps : 24 cm
ISBN:0773524029
0773524037

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