Colonization and Community: The Vancouver Island Coalfield and the Making of the British Columbian Working Class (McGill-Queen’s Studies in Ethnic History) (Volume 215)

Belshaw, John D.

ISBN 10: 0773524029 / ISBN 13: 9780773524026

Published by McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002

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First edition, first printing. Fine hardback in Fine unclipped dust jacket, clean and unmarked.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Colonization and Community: The Vancouver Island Coalfield and the Making of the British Columbian Working Class (McGill-Queen?s Studies in Ethnic History) (Volume 215)
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0773524029
• ISBN 13: 9780773524026
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine

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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.