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Gordon Hak
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$85.00 Hardcover
Release Date: 12/6/2006
ISBN: 9780774813075
$29.95 Paperback
Release Date: 7/1/2007
ISBN: 9780774813082
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About the Book
• Long-listed for the 2007 George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in BC Writing and Publishing,
The history of British Columbia’s economy in the twentieth century is inextricably bound to the development of the forest industry. In this comprehensive study, Gordon Hak approaches the forest industry from the perspectives of workers and employers, examining the two main sets of institutions that structured the relationship during the Fordist era: the companies and the unions.
Drawing on theories of the labour process, Fordism, and discursive subjectivity, Hak relates daily routines of production and profit-making to broader forces of unionism, business ideology, ecological protest, technological change, and corporate concentration. The struggle of the small-business sector to survive in the face of corporate growth, the history of the industry on the Coast and in the Interior, the transformations in capital-labour relations during the period, government forest policy, and the forest industry’s encounter with the emerging environmental movement are all considered in this eloquent analysis.
With its critical historical perspective, Capital and Labour in the British Columbia Forest Industry will be essential reading for anyone interested in the business, natural resource, political, social, and labour history of the province.
About the Author(s)
Gordon Hak is a member of the History Department at Malaspina University-College.
Table of Contents
Maps, Tables, Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Companies, Markets, and Production Facilities
2. The State, Sustained Yield, and Small Operators
3. Establishing Unions
4. Union Politics
5. The Daily Grind: Capital and Labour in the Era of the Collective Agreement
6 . Technology
7. Companies and Unions Meet the Environmental Movement
Final Remarks
Notes
Notes Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index
Reviews
This is a very well-written book that makes important scholarly contributions to a number of disciplines … It uses a rich variety of sources and methods to combine economic history with cultural, political, labour, and social history in ways that will challenge and inspire all BC and Canadian historians.
– Mark Leier, Professor of History and Director of the Centre for Labour Studies at Simon Fraser University
In this engaging study of the British Columbia forest industry, labour historian Gordon Hak pays equal attention to the history of the companies and unions, critically assessing the emergence and functioning of the labour relations system during the middle third of the twentieth century.
- Ian Radforth, University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol. 77, No. 1, Winter 2008
Hak’s analysis is clearly argued and well supported, drawing here on original research and there on established secondary literature. […] Capital and Labour is important reading for anyone interested in the forest industry in the Pacific Northwest. Its nuanced, critical discussion of how forestry was shaped by Fordism may also prove valuable to those concerned with the 20th-century history of other resource industries.
- Ben Bradley, Queen's University, Pacific Northwest Quarterly, Vol. 99, No. 3, Summer 2008
Gordon Hak’s Capital and Labour is a timely, noteworthy contribution. [...] Capital and Labour provides a wealth of information to inform and qualify generalizations about unionism and labour practices in a way that allows readers to decide for themselves the implications for theory and advocacy.
- Roger Hayter, Simon Fraser University, BC Studies, No. 159, Autumn 2008
Sample Chapter
Front Matter and Chapter One
Related Topics
BC Studies > Forestry
Forestry
History > Canada
BC Studies
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