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Analyzes occupational mobility opportunities in a Canadian frontier community through an examination of the status attainment of a 1979 sample of male residents of Fort McMurray, Alberta.
Author : Harvey Krahn
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 16,13 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Occupational mobility
ISBN :
Analyzes occupational mobility opportunities in a Canadian frontier community through an examination of the status attainment of a 1979 sample of male residents of Fort McMurray, Alberta.
Author : Decter, Michael B
Publisher :
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 35,1 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Canada
ISBN :
Author : Oliver Jürgen Dinius
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 28,94 MB
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0820336823
Company towns were the spatial manifestation of a social ideology and an economic rationale. The contributors to this volume show how national politics, social protest, and local culture transformed those founding ideologies by examining the histories of company towns in six countries: Argentina (Firmat), Brazil (Volta Redonda, Santos, Fordlândia), Canada (Sudbury), Chile (El Salvador), Mexico (Santa Rosa, Río Blanco), and the United States (Anaconda, Kellogg, and Sunflower City). Company towns across the Americas played similar economic and social roles. They advanced the frontiers of industrial capitalism and became powerful symbols of modernity. They expanded national economies by supporting extractive industries on thinly settled frontiers and, as a result, brought more land, natural resources, and people under the control of corporations. U.S. multinational companies exported ideas about work discipline, race, and gender to Latin America as they established company towns there to extend their economic reach. Employers indeed shaped social relations in these company towns through education, welfare, and leisure programs, but these essays also show how working-class communities reshaped these programs to serve their needs. The editors’ introduction and a theoretical essay by labor geographer Andrew Herod provide the context for the case studies and illuminate how the company town serves as a window into both the comparative and transnational histories of labor under industrial capitalism.
Author : Harry H. Hiller
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 29,43 MB
Release : 2009-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0773576878
Combining statistical analysis and ethnographic study, Harry Hiller uncovers two waves of in-migration to Alberta. His innovative approach begins with the individual migrant and analyzes the relocation experience from origin to destination. Through interviews with hundreds of migrants, Hiller shows that migration is complex and dynamic, shaped not just by what Alberta offers but also prompted by a process that begins in the region of origin which makes migration possible, and helps determine whether migrants stay or return home. By combining a social psychological approach with structural factors such as Alberta’s transition from a regional hinterland province to its emerging role the global system, discussions of gender, the internet, and folk culture, Second Promised Land provides a multi-dimensional and deeply human account of a contemporary Canadian phenomenon.
Author : Rex A. Lucas
Publisher :
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 12,41 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Explores links between economic resources, industrial structure and social patterns in Canada. 600 communities from coast to coast used in study, several north of 60 degrees, and many in mid-Canada development corridor.
Author : Don D Detomasi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 33,59 MB
Release : 2020-01-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1000309835
This volume consists of eleven original papers that survey the state of the art in research and public policy regarding specific problems and opportunities confronted by resource communities. The papers are international in scope, dealing with the experiences of resource communities in four nations—Canada, Norway, the United Kingdom, and the United
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 45,15 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Social structure
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Author : John Douglas Belshaw
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,17 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0773524029
Although immigrants from the United States, China, and elsewhere were part of the workforce brought in between 1850 and 1900 to man the mining industry of Vancouver Island, the largest group of miners was born in Britain. Belshaw (philosophy, history, and politics, U. College of the Cariboo, Canada) explores the aspirations, motivations, and experiences of these British immigrants, who formed the core of British Columbia's first industrial working class. He attempts a holistic examination that details the group's demographic features, its responses to day-to-day life under industrial capitalism, and its cultural development and explores the lives of the miners, their families, and their communities. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : JoAnn McDonald
Publisher : Lennoxville, Quebec : Eastern Townships Research Centre, Bishops University 2004.
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 38,93 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Author : International Committee for Social Science Information and Documentation
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 22,88 MB
Release : 1986-11-20
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780422811002
First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.