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

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

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 indus...

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

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