Labour + Persistence - Production & Contact Info (original) (raw)

British Columbia has historically been a region of resource based industries, beginning with coal mining, the salmon fishery and associated canning, which has required a manual labor force, albeit one that benefited from knowing the local ...See moreBritish Columbia has historically been a region of resource based industries, beginning with coal mining, the salmon fishery and associated canning, which has required a manual labor force, albeit one that benefited from knowing the local situation, which many of the managers and administrators, some proverbial robber barons, had no idea. This situation has led to a history of a strong labor movement and associated activism. These industries also led to immigration largely by visible non-Europeans to support these industries. While Chinese immigration is well known, albeit not associated to the coal mining in central Vancouver Island as is the case, as is the Japanese immigration associated to the salmon fishery, the black immigration from the United States is less well known, that situation slightly different in that it was largely to escape the racial oppression faced south of the border. Labor and the labor movement in association to WWI, the Great Depression, WWII, and the post-war suburbanization and the quest for a society-wide comfortable life is presented, with an emphasis on the half of the population not associated with much of this work, namely the female population. Written by Huggo See less