Workers, Capital, and the State in British Columbia

Selected Papers

Edited by Rennie Warburton & David Coburn
Publisher: UBC Press
Ebook (EPUB) : 9780774843171, 298 pages, November 2011
Ebook (PDF) : 9780774856850, 298 pages, January 1988
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Table of contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Contributors

1. Introduction / Rennie Warburton and David Coburn

2. Politics and the State in the Nineteenth Century / John
Malcolmson

3. Making Indians / Michael Kew

4. The Underground Economy: The Mining Frontier to 1920 / Paul
Phillips

5. Class, Ethnicity, and Conflict: The Case of Chinese and Japanese
Immigrants, 1880-1923 / Gillian Creese

6. Relations of Production and Collective Action in the Salmon
Fishery, 1900-1925 / James Conley

7. Workers, Class, and Industrial Conflict in New Westminster,
1900-1930 / Allen Seager

8. Class and Community in the Fraser Mills Strike, 1931 / Jeanne
Myers

9. Ethnicity and Class in the Farm Labour Process / Allan Dutton
and Cynthia Cornish

10. Public Policy, Capital, and Labour in the Forest Industry /
M. Patricia Marchak

11. Workers' Control of B.C. Telephone: The Shape of Things to
Come? / Elaine Bernard

12. The Rise of Non-Manual Work in British Columbia / Rennie
Warburton and David Coburn

13. The Class Relations of Public Schoolteachers in British Columbia
/ Rennie Warburton

14. Conclusion: Capitalist Social Relations in British Columbia /
Rennie Warburton

Description

This collection of essays offers a comprehensive examination of the
working class experience in British Columbia and contains essential
background knowledge for an understanding of contemporary relations
between government, labour, and employees. It treats workers'
relationship to the province's resource base, the economic role of
the state, the structure of capitalism, the labour market and the
influence of ethnicity and race on class relations.

Reviews

Interesting, informative and thought provoking. The approach taken by the writers is very fruitful and students and researchers interested in the relationships among workers, capital and the state would do well to follow the approach used in this book.

- Paul Gingrich