LEADER 04132nam 2200673 450 001 9910461035903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4426-3238-0 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442632387 035 $a(CKB)3710000000421429 035 $a(EBL)3432047 035 $a(OCoLC)929153518 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4669423 035 $a(CEL)450030 035 $a(OCoLC)918589031 035 $a(CaBNVSL)thg00930952 035 $a(DE-B1597)465824 035 $a(OCoLC)979968862 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442632387 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4669423 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11255956 035 $a(OCoLC)958511812 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000421429 100 $a20160919h19721972 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe bunkhouse man $ea study of work and pay in the camps of Canada, 1903-1914 /$fEdmund Bradwin ; with an introduction by Jean Burnet 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d1972. 210 4$dİ1972 215 $a1 online resource (267 p.) 225 1 $aThe Social history of Canada 300 $a"Life and labour in the northern work camps"--Cover. 311 $a0-8020-6135-4 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tAn introduction -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. The background of the navvy -- $t2. The contract system on railway construction -- $t3. Work and pay in isolated camps -- $t4. Some ethnic groupings among campmen -- $t5. When the campman becomes a contractor -- $t6. Shacks and shack-men on railway construction -- $t7. The medical system on frontier works -- $t8. Some alternative employments for workers in camps -- $t9. What constitutes real wages for the bunkhouse man? -- $t10. What's wrong with the contract system? -- $t11 Ottawa and the camps -- $t12. The bunkhouse man and public opinion -- $t13. The challenge of the migratory workers -- $tConclusion -- $tAppendices -- $tBackmatter 330 $aJournalists and poets, economists and political historians, have told the story of Canada?s railways, but their accounts pay little attention to the workers who built them. The Bunkhouse Man is the only study devoted to these men and their lives in construction camps; a pioneering work in sociology, it is still the best description of what it was like to be a working man in Canada before the First World War. E.W. Bradwin drew on his own experience as an instructor for Frontier College, working alongside his students during the day and teaching at night, to present this graphic portrait of life in the camps from 1903 to 1914. No detached observer, Bradwin played a vigorous role trying to improve the lot of the men?practicing the sociology of engagement advocated by radical sociologists today.Work camps have existed in Canada from early pioneer times to the 1970s and are unlikely to disappear. In the years of Bradwin?s study there were as many as 3,000 large camps employing 200,000 men, 5 per cent of the male labour force. Like the settling of the prairies, these camps are a characteristic Canadian phenomenon, but they have never drawn comparable attention. The republication of The Bunkhouse Man, with an introduction by Jean Burnet, makes available once more a work essential to the exploration of Canada?s history and social structure. 410 0$aSocial history of Canada. 606 $aLabor camps$zCanada 606 $aContract labor$zCanada 606 $aWages$zCanada 606 $aRailroad construction workers$zCanada 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aLabor camps 615 0$aContract labor 615 0$aWages 615 0$aRailroad construction workers 676 $a331.5/42/0971 700 $aBradwin$b Edmund W$g(Edmund William),$f1877-1954,$0885268 702 $aBurnet$b Jean 712 02$aColumbia University.$bFaculty of Political Science. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461035903321 996 $aThe bunkhouse man$91976598 997 $aUNINA