The Limits of Labour: Class Formation and the Labour Movement in Calgary, 1883-1929

by David Bright

In a few short decades before the First World War, Calgary was transformed from a frontier outpost into a complex industrial metropolis. With industrialization there emerged a diverse and equally complex working class. David Bright explores the various levels of class formation and class identity in the city to argue that Calgary's reputation as a prewar centre of labour conservatism is in need of revision.

Bright also delineates the trials...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774806974
• ISBN13: 9780774806978
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 286 Pages