Bush Workers and Bosses Logging in Northern Ontario 1900-1980 /

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The lumberjack - freewheeling, transient, independent - is the stuff of countless Canadian tales and legends. He is also something of a dinosaur, a creature of the past, replaced by a unionized worker in a highly mechanized and closely managed industry. In this far-ranging study of the logging indus...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Radforth, Ian (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
Colección:Heritage
Temas:
Labor unions > Ontario > History.
Logging > Labor unions > Ontario > History > 20th century.
NATURE / Natural Resources.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • PICTURE CREDITS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Northern Ontario and the forest industry
  • 2. A seasonal labour force, 1900-1945
  • 3. Bush work, 1900-1945
  • 4. Cutting costs
  • 5. In the camps
  • 6. Bushworkers in struggle, 1919-1935
  • 7. Building the Lumber and Saw
  • 8. Management responds: new recruits, camp improvements, and training schemes
  • 9. Management responds: mechanization
  • 10. Mechanized bush work
  • 11. Bushworkers respond to mechanization
  • Conclusion
  • APPENDICES
  • NOTE ON SOURCES
  • NOTES
  • INDEX

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