Common Labour: Workers and the Digging of North American Canals 1780-1860
Common Labour: Workers and the Digging of North American Canals 1780-1860 by Peter Way
English | 24 Sept. 1993 | ISBN: 0521440335, 0521102650 | 324 Pages | PDF | 7 MB
English | 24 Sept. 1993 | ISBN: 0521440335, 0521102650 | 324 Pages | PDF | 7 MB
This study of canal construction workers between 1780 and 1860 challenges labour history's focus on skilled craftsmen and the model of working-class culture it generated. Canallers, part of the mass of unskilled labour thrown up by industrial capitalism, had an experience that differed in many ways from artisans.