Work, Discipline and Conflict in the Hudson's Bay Co, 1770 to 1870
Details:
- Author(s) Burley, Edith I
- Publication type Dissertation, PhD
- Year published 1993
- Pages
- Publisher University of Manitoba
- Place Published Winnipeg MB
Topics:
- Name Workers / employee & work, women & men
- Name Worker / employee & industrial relations inc conflict, negotiation, demarcation, perogative, etc
- Name Worker / employee management inc control
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Library:
- Name Manitoba University Library
- City Winnipeg MB
- Country Canada
- Postcode R3T 2N2
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Notes:
Challenges the traditional view of HBC's workforce of labourers and tradesmen to find their actual relationship with the Company was negotiated - 'HBC men negotiated the terms of their engagements, retained customs and habits their superiors abandoned, engaged in private trade, were frequently disobedient and defiant, tried to control the pace and conditions of their work, and acted collectively to increase wages or oppose unfair treatment'. See the writer's monograph 'Servants of the Honourable Company. Work, discipline and conflict in the Hudson's Bay Company, 1770-1879', Toronto, 1997