Labor in Canadian Agriculture
Title | Labor in Canadian Agriculture PDF eBook |
Author | George Vickers Haythorne |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 142 |
Release | 1960 |
Genre | Agricultural laborers |
ISBN |
Agricultural Labour in Canada and United States
Title | Agricultural Labour in Canada and United States PDF eBook |
Author | Douglas Armstrong |
Publisher | |
Pages | 90 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | Agricultural laborers |
ISBN |
The Structure of the Canadian Agricultural Labor Force
Title | The Structure of the Canadian Agricultural Labor Force PDF eBook |
Author | A. B. Andarawewa |
Publisher | |
Pages | 60 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | Agricultural laborers |
ISBN |
Canada. Report and compilation of statistical tables on the rural worker force engaged in agriculture - includes information by age group, sex, position in the occupational structure, educational level, seasonal unemployment, etc., and a chapter on the effects of agricultural technological change on the labour force force. Bibliography pp. 34 and 35.
Harvard Studies in Labor in Agriculture
Title | Harvard Studies in Labor in Agriculture PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 1960 |
Genre | Agricultural laborers |
ISBN |
Hired Hands
Title | Hired Hands PDF eBook |
Author | Cecilia Danysk |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 1995-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780771025525 |
In this first full-length study of labour in Canadian prairie agriculture during the period of settlement and expansion, Cecilia Danysk examines the changing work and the growing rural community of the West through the eyes of the workers themselves.
Harvesting Labour
Title | Harvesting Labour PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Dunsworth |
Publisher | McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Pages | 215 |
Release | 2022-09-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0228012708 |
In recent decades an increasing share of Canada’s agricultural workforce has been made up of temporary foreign workers from the Global South. These labourers work difficult and dangerous jobs with limited legal protections and are effectively barred from permanent settlement in Canada. In Harvesting Labour Edward Dunsworth examines the history of farm work in one of Canada’s underrecognized but most important crop sectors – Ontario tobacco. Dunsworth takes aim at the idea that temporary foreign worker programs emerged in response to labour shortages or the unwillingness of Canadians to work in agriculture. To the contrary, Ontario’s tobacco sector was extremely popular with workers for much of the twentieth century, with high wages attracting a diverse workforce and enabling thousands to establish themselves as small farm owners. By the end of the century, however, the sector had become something entirely different: a handful of mega-farms relying on foreign guest workers to produce their crops. Taking readers from the leafy fields of Ontario’s tobacco belt to rural Jamaica, Barbados, and North Carolina and on to the halls of government, Dunsworth demonstrates how the ultimate transformation of tobacco – and Canadian agriculture writ large – was fundamentally a function of the capitalist restructuring of farming. Harvesting Labour brings together the fields of labour, migration, and business history to reinterpret the historical origins of contemporary Canadian agriculture and its workforce.
Migrant Workers in Canada
Title | Migrant Workers in Canada PDF eBook |
Author | North-South Institute (Ottawa, Ont.) |
Publisher | Institut Nord-Sud |
Pages | 48 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN |
For the past 40 years, farmers in Ontario and other provinces have been meeting some of their seasonal labour needs by hiring temporary workers from Caribbean countries and, since 1974, from Mexico under the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (CSAWP).