Author: Rosemary E. Ommer
Publisher: Fredericton, N.B. : Acadiensis Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Merchant Credit and Labour Strategies in Historical Perspective
Author: Rosemary E. Ommer
Publisher: Fredericton, N.B. : Acadiensis Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Publisher: Fredericton, N.B. : Acadiensis Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Book Review
Author: Elizabeth Mancke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Merchant credit and labour strategies in historical perspective
Languages : en
Pages : 3
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Merchant credit and labour strategies in historical perspective
Languages : en
Pages : 3
Book Description
Strategic Factors in Nineteenth Century American Economic History
Author: Claudia Goldin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226301354
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Offering new research on strategic factors in the development of the nineteenth century American economy—labor, capital, and political structure—the contributors to this volume employ a methodology innovated by Robert W. Fogel, one of the leading pioneers of the "new economic history." Fogel's work is distinguished by the application of economic theory and large-scale quantitative evidence to long-standing historical questions. These sixteen essays reveal, by example, the continuing vitality of Fogel's approach. The authors use an astonishing variety of data, including genealogies, the U.S. federal population census manuscripts, manumission and probate records, firm accounts, farmers' account books, and slave narratives, to address collectively market integration and its impact on the lives of Americans. The evolution of markets in agricultural and manufacturing labor is considered first; that concerning capital and credit follows. The demography of free and slave populations is the subject of the third section, and the final group of papers examines the extra-market institutions of governments and unions.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226301354
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Offering new research on strategic factors in the development of the nineteenth century American economy—labor, capital, and political structure—the contributors to this volume employ a methodology innovated by Robert W. Fogel, one of the leading pioneers of the "new economic history." Fogel's work is distinguished by the application of economic theory and large-scale quantitative evidence to long-standing historical questions. These sixteen essays reveal, by example, the continuing vitality of Fogel's approach. The authors use an astonishing variety of data, including genealogies, the U.S. federal population census manuscripts, manumission and probate records, firm accounts, farmers' account books, and slave narratives, to address collectively market integration and its impact on the lives of Americans. The evolution of markets in agricultural and manufacturing labor is considered first; that concerning capital and credit follows. The demography of free and slave populations is the subject of the third section, and the final group of papers examines the extra-market institutions of governments and unions.
Workers, Unions and Payment in Kind
Author: Christopher Frank
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131730957X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Despite the dramatic expansion of consumer culture from the beginning of the eighteenth century onwards and the developments in retailing, advertising and credit relationships in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, there were a significant number of working families in Britain who were not fully free to consume as they chose. These employees were paid in truck, or in goods rather than currency. This book will explore and analyse the changing ways that truck and workplace deductions were experienced by different groups in British society, arguing that it was far more common than has previously been acknowledged. This analysis brings to light issues of class and gender; the discourse of free trade, popular politics and protest; the development of the trade union movement; and the use of the legal system as an instrument for bringing about social and legal change.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131730957X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Despite the dramatic expansion of consumer culture from the beginning of the eighteenth century onwards and the developments in retailing, advertising and credit relationships in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, there were a significant number of working families in Britain who were not fully free to consume as they chose. These employees were paid in truck, or in goods rather than currency. This book will explore and analyse the changing ways that truck and workplace deductions were experienced by different groups in British society, arguing that it was far more common than has previously been acknowledged. This analysis brings to light issues of class and gender; the discourse of free trade, popular politics and protest; the development of the trade union movement; and the use of the legal system as an instrument for bringing about social and legal change.
Conflicted Colony
Author: Kurt Korneski
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773599517
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Nineteenth-century Newfoundland was an archetypal borderland - a space where changes in the authority of imperial, national, and indigenous territorial claims shaped the opportunities and identities of a socially diverse population. Conflicted Colony elucidates processes of state formation in Newfoundland through a reassessment of key moments in the country's history. Kurt Korneski closely examines five conflicts from the late nineteenth century - the Fortune Bay Dispute of 1878, the St George's Bay Dispute of 1889-92, the 1890s Lobster Controversy, the Battle of Foxtrap, and disputes over salmon grounds in Hamilton Inlet, Labrador - to explain how local regimes received, challenged, and reworked formal and informal diplomatic and commercial arrangements, as well as policies set out by the colonial and imperial government. The chapters examine antagonisms and divisions that grew out of clashes between the distinct commercial and social identities of regions in the borderlands and the sensibilities of merchants, politicians, and working people on the Avalon Peninsula. Providing new insight into the social history of Newfoundland and Labrador, these disputes illuminate contending perspectives driven by informal systems of governance, political movements, and local economic, social, demographic, and ecological circumstances. Conflicted Colony broadens, deepens, and clarifies our understanding of how Newfoundland became an integrated Dominion in the British Empire.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773599517
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Nineteenth-century Newfoundland was an archetypal borderland - a space where changes in the authority of imperial, national, and indigenous territorial claims shaped the opportunities and identities of a socially diverse population. Conflicted Colony elucidates processes of state formation in Newfoundland through a reassessment of key moments in the country's history. Kurt Korneski closely examines five conflicts from the late nineteenth century - the Fortune Bay Dispute of 1878, the St George's Bay Dispute of 1889-92, the 1890s Lobster Controversy, the Battle of Foxtrap, and disputes over salmon grounds in Hamilton Inlet, Labrador - to explain how local regimes received, challenged, and reworked formal and informal diplomatic and commercial arrangements, as well as policies set out by the colonial and imperial government. The chapters examine antagonisms and divisions that grew out of clashes between the distinct commercial and social identities of regions in the borderlands and the sensibilities of merchants, politicians, and working people on the Avalon Peninsula. Providing new insight into the social history of Newfoundland and Labrador, these disputes illuminate contending perspectives driven by informal systems of governance, political movements, and local economic, social, demographic, and ecological circumstances. Conflicted Colony broadens, deepens, and clarifies our understanding of how Newfoundland became an integrated Dominion in the British Empire.
Kingdom of the Mind
Author: Peter E. Rider
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773584145
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
In A Kingdom of the Mind ethnographers, material culture specialists, and contributors from a wide variety of disciplines explore the impact of the Scots on Canadian life, showing how the Scots' image of their homeland and themselves played an important role in the emerging definition of what it meant to be Canadian.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773584145
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
In A Kingdom of the Mind ethnographers, material culture specialists, and contributors from a wide variety of disciplines explore the impact of the Scots on Canadian life, showing how the Scots' image of their homeland and themselves played an important role in the emerging definition of what it meant to be Canadian.
Fishing Places, Fishing People
Author: Dianne Newell
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802079596
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Using case studies drawn from across Canada, the papers demonstrate that there are many shared issues in the various small-scale fisheries of this country, and locate small-scale fisheries in their historical context as well as in that of global concerns.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802079596
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Using case studies drawn from across Canada, the papers demonstrate that there are many shared issues in the various small-scale fisheries of this country, and locate small-scale fisheries in their historical context as well as in that of global concerns.
Colonial America and the Early Republic
Author: Philip N. Mulder
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351950568
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 866
Book Description
Reflecting the best recent scholarship of Early America and the Early Republic, the articles in this collection study the many dimensions of American political history. The authors explore Native American interests and encounters with settlers, diplomatic endeavors, environmental issues, legal debates and practiced law, women's citizenship and rights, servitude and slavery and popular political activity. The geographical perspective is as expansive as the topical, with strong representation of trans-Atlantic and continental interests of many nations and peoples. The international and interdisciplinary perspectives illustrate the dynamic transformations of America during this era of settlement, conquest, development, revolution and nation building.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351950568
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 866
Book Description
Reflecting the best recent scholarship of Early America and the Early Republic, the articles in this collection study the many dimensions of American political history. The authors explore Native American interests and encounters with settlers, diplomatic endeavors, environmental issues, legal debates and practiced law, women's citizenship and rights, servitude and slavery and popular political activity. The geographical perspective is as expansive as the topical, with strong representation of trans-Atlantic and continental interests of many nations and peoples. The international and interdisciplinary perspectives illustrate the dynamic transformations of America during this era of settlement, conquest, development, revolution and nation building.
A Legacy of Exploitation
Author: Susan Dianne Brophy
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774866381
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
The Red River Colony was the Hudson’s Bay Company’s first planned settlement. As a settler-colonial project par excellence, it was designed to undercut Indigenous peoples’ “troublesome” autonomy and curtain the company’s dependency on their labour. In this critical re-evaluation of the history of the Red River Colony, Susan Dianne Brophy upends standard accounts by foregrounding Indigenous producers as a driving force of change. A Legacy of Exploitation challenges the enduring yet misleading fantasy of Canada as a glorious nation of adventurers, showing how autonomy can become distorted as complicity in processes of dispossession.
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774866381
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
The Red River Colony was the Hudson’s Bay Company’s first planned settlement. As a settler-colonial project par excellence, it was designed to undercut Indigenous peoples’ “troublesome” autonomy and curtain the company’s dependency on their labour. In this critical re-evaluation of the history of the Red River Colony, Susan Dianne Brophy upends standard accounts by foregrounding Indigenous producers as a driving force of change. A Legacy of Exploitation challenges the enduring yet misleading fantasy of Canada as a glorious nation of adventurers, showing how autonomy can become distorted as complicity in processes of dispossession.
Capitalizing Knowledge
Author: Barbara J. Austin
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802042347
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
The history of eight Canadian business faculties are examined through a series of essays in their search for professional legitimacy.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802042347
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
The history of eight Canadian business faculties are examined through a series of essays in their search for professional legitimacy.