Small Town Deal The Life and Death of Renfrew Woollen Mills, 1917-1953
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Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
01.10.2026
Verlag
Au PressMaße (L/B)
22,9/15,3 cm
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-77199-474-3
Sir John A. Macdonald's National Policy was meant to foster the domestic production of consumer goods and, in the process, ensure steady jobs at good wages. In reality, in small towns like Renfrew, Ontario women workers laboured for unconscionably low wages, and men worked staggeringly long hours. They suffered largely in silence, their exploitation hidden by a myth of small town community that denied their class standing.
In Small Town Deal, Peter Campbell brings to life the untold story of how small-town workers in the Renfrew Woollen Mills both benefitted from and were exploited by a National Policy that survived on their unseen labour and silent sacrifices. The "small town deal" rested on the expectation that workers would be seen but not heard while employers maintained labour harmony through paternalistic ideals and practices. Focusing on Catholic owners and Catholic workers, this book introduces a different Ontario, one in which the Catholic Church plays a key role in fostering worker acceptance of their class standing. Campbell details both the heyday of this moral economy and the challenge to it in the form of the 1937 strike, then a "company union," and later the arrival of the Textile Workers Union of America.
Renfrew's small town deal survived the coming of the international union movement, but could not survive Cold War anti-Communism and the Liberal Party's dismantling of the woollen textile industry as part of the creation of a new post-war economic order. The era of the National Policy and the small town deal is gone, but the contributions and the struggles of the workers who made small towns like Renfrew places where things were made live on.
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