Citizen Docker: Making a New Deal on the Vancouver Waterfront, 1919-1939 Contributor(s): Parnaby, Andrew (Author) |
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ISBN: 0802093841 ISBN-13: 9780802093844 Publisher: University of Toronto Press
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: April 2008 Annotation: After World War 1 Canada as a state was significant in articulating for its citizens a new morality concerned with the possibility of national regeneration. At the same time, outside actors such as employers were also actively pursuing reform agendas taking aim at the welfare of the family, citizen and the nation. This book considers this trend focusing on the Vancouver waterfront as a case in point. Click for more in this series: Canadian Social History |
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BISAC Categories: - History | Canada - Post-confederation (1867-) - Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations - History | Social History |
Dewey: 331.761 |
Series: Canadian Social History |
Physical Information: 0.64" H x 5.64" W x 8.47" L (0.76 lbs) 304 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Geographic Orientation - British Columbia - Locality - Vancouver, British Columbia |
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents |
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Publisher Description: After the First World War, many Canadians were concerned with the possibility of national regeneration. Progressive-minded politicians, academics, church leaders, and social reformers turned increasingly to the state for solutions. Yet, as significant as the state was in articulating and instituting a new morality, outside actors such as employers were active in pursuing reform agendas as well, taking aim at the welfare of the family, citizen, and nation. Citizen Docker considers this trend, focusing on the Vancouver waterfront as a case in point. After the war, waterfront employers embarked on an ambitious program - welfare capitalism - to ease industrial relations, increase the efficiency of the port, and, ultimately, recondition longshoremen themselves. Andrew Parnaby considers these reforms as a microcosm of the process of accommodation between labour and capital that affected Canadian society as a whole in the 1920s and 1930s. By creating a new sense of entitlement among waterfront workers, one that could not be satisfied by employers during the Great Depression, welfare capitalism played an important role in the cultural transformation that took place after the Second World War. Encompassing labour and gender history, aboriginal studies, and the study of state formation, Citizen Docker examines the deep shift in the aspirations of working people, and the implications that shift had on Canadian society in the interwar years and beyond. |
Contributor Bio(s): Parnaby, Andrew: - Andrew Parnaby is an assistant professor in the Department of History at Cape Breton University. |
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