Making Vancouver : class, status, and social boundaries, 1863-1913

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Making Vancouver : class, status, and social boundaries, 1863-1913

Robert A.J. McDonald

UBC Press, c1996

  • : hard
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [288]-305)

Includes index

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

: hard ISBN 9780774805551

内容説明

Making Vancouver is about the people of Vancouver, British Columbia. It traces the social transformation of the city and points out how Shaughnessy Heights lumber barons, Mount Pleasant trades people, and East End Labourers were part of a complext society whose members exhibited sharp differences in attitudes and behaviour. The book starts with the early years, when settlement on Burrard Inlet centered around two lumber mills and the elite dominated local institutions. Periods of social and political conflict then followed in the wake of the railway, heightening class tensions at teh turn of the century. During the boom years before the First World War, Vancouver experienced tremendous growth, and status became an important factor in defining its social structure. In Making Vancouver, Robert McDonald depicts a western city that was neither egalitarian nore closed to opportunity. Vancouver up to the crash of 1913 was a dynamic centre. The rapidity of growth, easy access to resources, a narrow industrial base, and the homogenoeous nature of its population, the majority of which was of British birth, softened the thrust towards class division inherent in capitalism. Of special interest to Vancouverites, Making Vancouver both confirms and challenges our understanding of the city's early history. Class tensions still emerge as a central feature of city life, and racism still divides Vancouverites from one another. But conventional wisdom also gives way to new understanding when status is recognized as an important but overlooked aspect of urban experience.
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780774805704

内容説明

Making Vancouver explores social relationships in Vancouver from 1863 to 1913. It considers how urbanization structured social boundaries among Burrard Inlet's increasingly large population and is premised on the belief that, in studying social boundaries, historians must abandon single category forms of analysis and build into their research strategies the capacity to explore complexity. Robert McDonald thus traces the relationship between the two forms of identify, class and status, for the whole of Vancouver society. The book starts with the years when settlement on Burrard Inlet centred around two lumber mills, explores periods of elite dominance of city institutions and then of growing social and political conflict following the arrival of the railway, examines the heightening of class tensions at the turn of the century, charts economic growth during the boom years before the war, and concludes with three chapters on the tripartite status hierarchy that emerged in concert with that of a class dichotomy. It reveals a western city that was neither egalitarian nor closed to opportunity. Vancouver up to the pre-war crash of 1913 was open and dynamic. The rapidity of growth, easy access to resources, narrow industrial base, and influence of ethnicity and race softened the thrust towards class division inherent in capitalism. Far more powerful in directing social relations was the quest for status, creating a social structure that was no less hierarchical than that predicted by class theory but much more fluid. The social boundary that separated the working class from others is revealed as a division that for much of the pre-war boom period divided Vancouver society more fundamentally than the boundary separating labour from capital.

目次

Maps and Photographs Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Crowded between Forest and Shore 2 City Builders 3 Monopolists and Plain People 4 Captial and Labour 5 Incorrigible Optimists 6 The Wealthy Business and Professional Class 7 The Artisan or Moderately Well-To-Do Class 8 The Immigrant Section Conclusion Notes Select Bibliography Index

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