Bush Workers and Bosses Logging in Northern Ontario 1900–1980 / / Ian Radforth.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Radforth, Ian,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1987
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.)

The lumberjack – freewheeling, transient, independent – is the stuff of countless Canadian tales and legends. He is also something of a dinosaur, a creature of the past, replaced by a unionized worker in a highly mechanized and closely managed industry. In this far-ranging study of the logging industry in twentieth-century Ontario, Ian Radforth charters the course of its transition and the response of its workers to the changes. Among the factors he considers are technological development, changes in demography and the labour market, an emerging labour movement, new managerial strategies, the growth of a consumer society, and rising standards of living. Radforth has drawn on an impressive array of sources, including interviews and forestry student reports as well as a vast body of published sources such as The Labour Gazette, The Pulp and Paper Magazine of Canada, and The Canada Lumberman, to shed new light on trade union organization and on the role of ethnic groups in the woods work force. The result is a richly detailed analysis of life on the job for logging workers during a period that saw the modernization not only of the work but of relations between the workers and the bosses.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- PICTURE CREDITS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Northern Ontario and the forest industry -- 2. A seasonal labour force, 1900-1945 -- 3. Bush work, 1900-1945 -- 4. Cutting costs -- 5. In the camps -- 6. Bushworkers in struggle, 1919-1935 -- 7. Building the Lumber and Saw -- 8. Management responds: new recruits, camp improvements, and training schemes -- 9. Management responds: mechanization -- 10. Mechanized bush work -- 11. Bushworkers respond to mechanization -- Conclusion -- APPENDICES -- NOTE ON SOURCES -- NOTES -- INDEX