Canada investigates industrialism : the Royal Commission on the Relations of Labor and Capital, 1889 (abridged)
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Canada investigates industrialism : the Royal Commission on the Relations of Labor and Capital, 1889 (abridged)
（Social history of Canada）
University of Toronto Press, c1973
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Through the Royal Commission on the Relations of Labor and Capital we can perhaps gain our best insight into the everyday world of workers and capitalists in late nineteenth-century Canada. The commission gathered evidence in Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick and talked to thousands of workers, businessmen, and other concerned citizens. This edited version of its investigation includes much of the best testimony; it describes working class living condition, the emergence of organized labor, and the attitudes of business to industrial capitalism. These almost unique interviews allow us to enter their intellectual and cultural world - to learn of their past and present and of some of their hopes and aspirations. The Labor Commission reports and testimony are essential for an understanding of the Canadian working class as it was being transformed by the new techniques of industrial production.
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