4 The Underground Economy: The Mining Frontier to 1920

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Contributors xi
6. Introduction 1
7. Politics and the State in the Nineteenth Century 9
8. Making Indians 24
9. The Underground Economy: The Mining Frontier to 1920 35
10. Class, Ethnicity, and Conflict: The Case of Chinese and Japanese Immigrants, 1880–1923 55
11. Relations of Production and Collective Action in the Salmon Fishery, 1900–1925 86
12. Workers, Class, and Industrial Conflict in New Westminster, 1900–1930 117
13. Class and Community in the Fraser Mills Strike, 1931 141
14. Ethnicity and Class in the Farm Labour Process 161
15. Public Policy, Capital, and Labour in the Forest Industry 177
16. Workers’ Control at B.C. Telephone: The Shape of Things to Come? 201
17. The Rise of Non-Manual Work in British Columbia 220
18. The Class Relations of Public Schoolteachers in British Columbia 240
19. Conclusion: Capitalist Social Relations in British Columbia 263