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Labour and Capital in Canada 1650-1860

by (author) H. Clare Pentland

edited by Paul Phillips

Publisher
James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
Initial publish date
Jan 1981
Category
Labor, Labor & Industrial Relations, Industrial Health & Safety
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780888623782
    Publish Date
    Jan 1981
    List Price
    $19.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780888623799
    Publish Date
    Jan 1981
    List Price
    $45.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781552773888
    Publish Date
    Feb 2008
    List Price
    $45.00

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First published in 1981, H. Clare Pentland's Labour and Capital in Canada 1650-1860 is a seminal work that analyzes the shaping of the Canadian working class and the evolution of capitalism in Canada.

Pentland's work focuses on the relationship between the availability and nature of labour and the development of industry. From that idea flows an absorbing account that explores patterns of labour, patterns of immigration and the growth of industry. Pentland writes of the massive influx of immigrants to Canada in the 1800s--taciturn highland Scots who eked out a meagre living on subsistence farms; shrewd lowlanders who formed the basis of an emerging business class; skilled English artisans who brought their trades and their politics to the new land; Americans who took to farming; and Irish who came in droves, fleeing the poverty and savagery of an Ireland under the heel of Britain.

Labour and Capital in Canada is a classic study of the peoples who built Canada in the first two centuries of European occupation.

About the authors

H. CLARE PENTLAND, born in 1914 in Brandon, Manitoba, was a professor of economics at the University of Manitoba at the time of his death in 1978.

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PAUL PHILLIPS is a professor of economics at the University of Manitoba.

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