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,...

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...

With the rise of the service society, emotional labour has become increasingly prevalent. Emotional labour involves the production and consumption of the worker's identity as part of the customer service experience. However, emotional labour requires the performance of appropriate or moral...