"A Special Breed": Packing Men and the Class and Racial Politics of Manly Discourses in Post-1945 Edmonton, Alberta

Authors

  • Cynthia Loch-Drake York University

Keywords:

Displaced workers, Occupational segregation, Violence in the workplace, Sexual discrimination

Abstract

Edmonton's male packing house workers mobilized rough and respectable notions of masculinity at the bargaining table during the halcyon days of industrial unionism after World War Two. But on the shop floor and in the union hall their attitudes and behaviour could have a corrosive effect that limited worker activism and class solidarity.

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Author Biography

Cynthia Loch-Drake, York University

Cynthia Loch-Drake, York University, is working on a dissertation entitled: "Unpacking 'Alberta Beef': Work, Culture and Identities in Edmonton's Packinghouse Community, 1947-1979."

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Published

2007-10-01

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Section

Labouring Feminism Thematic Cluster