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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,...
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In the nineteenth century coal-miners imported from Europe, Asia, and eastern North America burrowed beneath the Vancouver Island towns of Nanaimo, Wellington, and Cumberland. No group was as numerous and influential in this enterprise as the hundreds of British immigrants who traveled half-way...
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"From mining to sex work and from the classroom to the docks, violence has always been a part of work. This collection of essays highlights the many different forms and expressions of violence that have arisen under capitalism in the last two hundred years, as well as how historians of...
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provides strong suggestions that such epidemic has affected certain social groups more than others. In particular, education … from Australia, Canada, England and Korea were undertaken with the aim of exploring the relationship between education and …-time education and the probability of obesity, with most educated individuals displaying lower rates of the condition (the only …
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