Class, Gender, and Region Essays in Canadian Historical Sociology

This volume is a reprint of a special edition of The Canadian Journal of Sociology.

The essays are gathered around two themes: the relationship of sociology and social history, and the intersection of gender, ethnicity, and region with class. Unlike most Canadian essay collections, the contributors and their subjects cover Canada from British Columbia to Newfoundland, with forays into Cape Breton and central Canada. The volume contains articles by Ian McKay, Gordon Darroch, James R. Conley, Alicja Muszynski, Gillian Creese, and Jim Overton.

An interesting collection of some of the new work being done in Canada by historians and sociologists, Class, Gender, and Region reflects Charles Tilly’s suggestion that “there should be no disciplinary division of labour: simply both doing social history.”

Table of Contents

1. The Authors
2. Introduction
   Gregory S. Kealey
3. The crisis of dependent development: class conflict in the Nova Scotia coalfields, 1872-1876
   Ian McKay
4. Class in nineteenth-century, central Ontario: a reassessment of the crisis and demise of small producers during early industrialization, 1861 -1871
   Gordon Darroch
5. “More theory, less fact?” Social reproduction and class conflict in a sociological approach to working-class history
   James R. Conley
6. Race and gender: structural determinants in the formation of British Columbia’s salmon cannery labour force
   Alicja Muszynski
7. The politics of dependence: women, work, and unemployment in the Vancouver labour movement before World War II
   Gillian Creese
8. Public relief and social unrest in Newfoundland in the 1930s: an evaluation of the ideas of Piven and Cloward
   James Overton

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