Colonization and Community: The Vancouver Island Coalfield and the Making of the British Columbian Working Class

Belshaw, John Douglas

ISBN 10: 0773524037 / ISBN 13: 9780773524033

Published by McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal, PQ, Canada/ Kingston, On., 2002

The paperback is square and tight, lays flat, no marks, 324 pages. Seller Inventory # 11834

Synopsis:

In Colonization and Community John Belshaw takes a new look at British Columbia's first working class, the men, women, and children beneath and beyond the pit-head. Beginning with an exploration of emigrant expectations and ambitions, he investigates working conditions, household wages, racism, industrial organization, gender, schooling, leisure, community building, and the fluid identity of the British mining colony, the archetypal west coast proletariat. By connecting the story of Vancouver Island to the larger story of Victorian industrialization, he delineates what was distinctive and what was common about the lot of the settler society. Belshaw breaks new ground, challenging the easy assumptions of transferred British political traditions, analyzing the colonial at the household level, and revealing the emergent communities of Vancouver Island as the cradle of British Columbian working-class culture.

About the Author: John Douglas Belshaw is on faculty at Thompson Rivers University - Open Learning, a consultant to the post-secondary sector, and the author of several books on BC history.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Colonization and Community: The Vancouver ...
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal, PQ, Canada/ Kingston, On.
Publication Date: 2002
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
Edition: First Edition.