Servants of the Honourable Company: Work, Discipline, and Conflict in the Hudson's Bay Company, 1770 - 1870 (Canadian Social History Series) - Softcover

Burley, Edith I.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195412966 ISBN 13: 9780195412963

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1998

Synopsis

The Hudson Bay Company sought workers from pre-industrial societies who would accept the traditional master-servant relationship. To a large extent they did. In fact, these workers never questioned this central tenet of the HBC hierarchy. They did, however, bargain for higher wages, refuse to work under intolerable and dangerous conditions, object to unfair treatment by authoritarian officers, cause work stoppages in protest for sufficient food and more grog, mutiny against tyrannical ships' captains, and even kill a particularly brutal officer. Burley's book fully details an important aspect of the Canadian working-class experience.

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Review:

"This is a consistently interesting book and a valuable addition to fur trade, labor, and social history."--The Journal of American History

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0195412966
• ISBN 13: 9780195412963
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 328