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Table of contents :
Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Chapter 1. Challenging Class Analysis to Understand Inequalities
Chapter 2. Does Class Matter? Accounting for the Direction of Canadian Society
Chapter 3. Technological Change and Its Effects on Employees: Some Canadian Experiences (with Swedish Subtitles)
Chapter 4. Canada's Social Structure: Capital, Labour and the State, 1930-1980
Chapter 5. Debates and Directions: A Political Economy of Canada's Resources
Chapter 6. Labour in Exposed Sectors: Canada's Resource Economy
Chapter 7. Canada's Coastal Fisheries: Formation of Unions, Co-operatives and Associations
Chapter 8. The Limits of Co-operation: Strategies for Fisheries Development in Canada and Norway
Chapter 9. Regionalism as Uneven Development: Class and Region in Canada
Chapter 10. Class Cleavages and Canadian Political Economy

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Carleton Library Series No. 149

THE CHALLENGE OF

ANALYSIS W A L L A C E C L E M E N T

Carleton University Press Ottawa, Canada 1988

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Carleton University Press Inc. 1988

ISBN : 0-88629-075-9 Printed and bound in Canada Carleton Library Series #I49

Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data Clement, Wallace The challenge of class analysis ISBN 0-88629475-9 1. Social classes

- Canada. I. Title.

Distributed by : Oxford University Press Canada, 70 Wynford Drive, Don Mills, Ontario, Canada M3C U9 (416) 441-2941

Cover design : Chris Jackson Acknowledgements Carleton University Press gmtefully acknowledges the support extended to its publishing programme by the Canada Council and the Ontario Arts Council.

To Ma% and Harold, with love.

THE CARLETON LIBRARY SERIES A series of original works, new collections, and reprints of source material relating to Canada, issued under the supervision of the Editorial Board, Carleton Library Series, Carleton University Press Inc., Ottawa, Canada. GENERAL EDITOR Michael Gnarowski ASSOCIATE GENERAL EDITOR Peter Emberley EDITORIAL BOARD Bruce Cox (Anthropology) Peter Emberley (Political Science) David Gardner (Science) Keith Johnson (History) David Knight (Geography) Michael MacNeil (Law) T.K. Ryrnes (Economics) Daiva Stasiulis (Sociology)

Contents Acknowledgements. .....................................1 Preface

...............................................3

Chapter 1 Challenging Class Analysis to Understand Inequalities

.........5

Chapter 2 Does Class Matter? Accounting for the Direction of Canadian Society ......................................19

Chapter 3 Technological Change and Its Effects on Employees: Some Canadian Experiences (with Swedish Subtitles) ........ .33

Chapter 4 Canada's Social Structure: Capital, Labour and the State, 1930-1980 ................................... .47

Chapter 5 Debates and Directions: A Political Economy of Canada's Resources ................................... -69

Chapter 6 Labour in Exposed Sectors: Canada's Resource Economy

..... .89

Chapter 7 Canada's Coastal Fisheries: Formation of Unions, Co-operatives and Associations ......................... .lo5

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Chapter 8 The Limits of Co-operation: Strategies for Fisheries Development in Canada and Norway ..................... .I35

Chapter 9 Regionalism as Uneven Development: Class and Region in Canada ............................,151

Chapter 10 Class Cleavages and Canadian Political Economy. .......... ,165

ACKNOWIJDGEMElVlS AND PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The following ten chapters draw upon my recent writings. Chapter 1, Challenging Class Analysis to Understand Inequalities, was originally presented in London to the Trends in Social Inequality Conference as the Opening Address in October 1986. Chapter 2, "Does Class Matter? Accounting for the Direction of Canadian Society, was the 17th Annual Sorokin Lecture presented at the University of Saskatchewan in January 1986. Chapter 3, "Technological Change and Its Effects on Employees: Some Canadian Experiences (with Swedish Subtitles), " was delivered in Winnipeg as the Inaugural Lecture of the Workplace Innovation Centre (a Manitoba Crown corporation) in February 1987. Chapter 4 is an expanded version of Canada's Social Structure: Capital, Labour and the State, 1930-1980," published in Modem Canada, 1930-1980:Readings in Gumdim Social History, Volume 5, edited by Michael S. Cross and Gregory S. Kealey (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1984). Chapter 5, Debates and Directions: A Political Economy of Canada's Resources, " was written for fie New Canadian Political Economy, edited by Wallace Clement and Glen Williams (Montreal: McGillQueen's University Press, 1988). Chapter 6, Labour in Exposed Sectors: Canada's Resource Economy, appeared in Fennia: me Oflcial Journal of Geogmphical Society 163:2 (1985). Chapter 7, Canada's Coastal the I"inmnnrsh Fisheries: Formation of Unions, Co-operatives and Associations, was published in the Journal of Canadian Studies 19:l (Spring 1984). Chapter 8, " The L imitsof Co-operation: Strategies for Fisheries Development in Canada and Norway," was presented in Norway to the Conference on Social Research and Public Policy Formation in the Fisheries: Norwegian and Atlantic Canadian Experiences, University of T r o m ~in , June 1986. Chapter 9, " Regionalism as Uneven Development: Class and Region in Canada, was published in Canadian Issues 5 (1983). Chapter 10, " Class Cleavages and Canadian Political Economy, " was written for Canadian Political Science: 7he State of the Art, edited by Michael Stein, John Trent and Andre Domeur (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1988). To reduce repetition, parts of some chapters have been edited. "

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