Colonization and community [[electronic resource] ] : the Vancouver Island coalfield and the making of the British Columbian working class / / John Douglas Belshaw

• Autore: Belshaw John Douglas
• Pubblicazione: Montréal, Que., : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2002
• Descrizione fisica: xv, 320 p. : ill., maps
• Disciplina: 971.1/203
• Soggetto topico: Working class - British Columbia - Vancouver Island - History; Coal miners - British Columbia - Vancouver Island - History; British - British Columbia - Vancouver Island - History; Coal mines and mining - Social aspects - British Columbia - Vancouver Island - History; Ethnology - British Columbia - Vancouver Island
• Soggetto geografico: Vancouver Island (B.C.) History
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references: p. [267]-308.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Mining Coal on the Edge of the Empire -- The Emigrant British Miners and Their Kin -- The Immigrant British Miners and Their Kin -- Work and Wages -- Conflicts in the Colonial Setting -- Mobility and Identity -- Building a Culture -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In Colonization and Community John Belshaw takes a new look at British Columbia's first working class, the men, women, and children beneath and beyond the pit-head. Beginning with an exploration of emigrant expectations and ambitions, he investigates working conditions, household wages, racism, industrial organization, gender, schooling, leisure, community building, and the fluid identity of the British mining colony, the archetypal west coast proletariat. By connecting the story of Vancouver Island to the larger story of Victorian industrialization, he delineates what was distinctive and what was common about the lot of the settler society. Belshaw breaks new ground, challenging the easy assumptions of transferred British political traditions, analyzing the colonial at the household level, and revealing the emergent communities of Vancouver Island as the cradle of British Columbian working-class culture.
• Titolo autorizzato: Colonization and community
• ISBN: 1-283-52973-4; 9786613842183; 0-7735-7040-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783793903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history. : Series two.