Common Labour - Workers and the Digging of North American Canals 1780-1860

Klappentext Composed increasingly of Irish immigrants, Way explains, the work force was housed in hastily built shanty towns along the path of canal construction. Zusammenfassung The history of canal workers traces another strand of the labour story! one where the absence of skills bred powerlessness that made common labour's engagement with capital markedly unequal. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Early canals 1780-1812; 2. 'As low as labour and capital can afford': the contracting system 1817-1840; 3. 'Human labour, physical and intelligent'; 4. Payment 'fit for labouring people'; 5. 'The greatest quantity of labour'; 6. 'Canawlers and citizens'; 7. 'Guerilla war': labour conflict in the 1830s; 8. 'This new order of things': the 1840s-1850s; Conclusion; Appendices; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Way, Peter (University of Sussex) Way, Way Peter
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.03.2009
• EAN: 9780521102650
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10265-0
• No. of pages: 328
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, North America, HISTORY / United States / General, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Labour / income economics, c 1500 onwards to present day, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Social and cultural history, History of the Americas, North America (USA and Canada), C 1700 To C 1800