This paper uses a case study of class struggle in the late-eighteenth-century Newfoundland fishery to examine the relationship between merchant capital and the employment of wage labour in staple production in early colonial development. Using a modified version of the staple model which emphasises the role of the class relations and institutional structures of staple industries on long-term development, it finds that British regulation of wages to protect the migratory fishery stymied the extensive employment of wage labour by resident planters. Evidence drawn from court records suggests that fishing servants used the law to prevent erosion of wages due from planters at the end of a fishing season by ignoring mandatory preseason contracts ...
As customary socio-economic relationships between the inhabitants of Newfoundland broke down, normal...
This thesis attempts to describe the multiplex fisher- merchant relationships as they were experienc...
The thesis investigates the emergence of capitalist relations of production in the British Columbia ...
The period of the Napoleonic Wars marked the virtual extinction of the transient fishery between Eng...
Merchant credit systems and household production have usually been examined historically as two dist...
The truck system, the principal medium of exchange between merchants and fishing people in the outp...
Artisans who specialized in the production of consumer goods in St. John's during the American Revol...
The staples theory has dominated the history of the fisheries in Atlantic Canada for the last centur...
grantor: University of TorontoThis thesis examines governance in Newfoundland from 1699 to...
Inhospitable and unattractive to Company investors and colonists, Newfoundland was unique among Engl...
Newfoundland Colonization GovernmentContains advertisements for St. John's, N.L. businesse
This article challenges the conventional view that a colonial state did not exist in eighteenth-cent...
For English merchants, planters and politicians, colonizing Newfoundland required learning the limit...
During the First World War a widespread public impression that merchants were taking advantage of th...
This is an attempt to outline the legal and economic framework within which trade unions have functi...
As customary socio-economic relationships between the inhabitants of Newfoundland broke down, normal...
This thesis attempts to describe the multiplex fisher- merchant relationships as they were experienc...
The thesis investigates the emergence of capitalist relations of production in the British Columbia ...
The period of the Napoleonic Wars marked the virtual extinction of the transient fishery between Eng...
Merchant credit systems and household production have usually been examined historically as two dist...
The truck system, the principal medium of exchange between merchants and fishing people in the outp...
Artisans who specialized in the production of consumer goods in St. John's during the American Revol...
The staples theory has dominated the history of the fisheries in Atlantic Canada for the last centur...
grantor: University of TorontoThis thesis examines governance in Newfoundland from 1699 to...
Inhospitable and unattractive to Company investors and colonists, Newfoundland was unique among Engl...
Newfoundland Colonization GovernmentContains advertisements for St. John's, N.L. businesse
This article challenges the conventional view that a colonial state did not exist in eighteenth-cent...
For English merchants, planters and politicians, colonizing Newfoundland required learning the limit...
During the First World War a widespread public impression that merchants were taking advantage of th...
This is an attempt to outline the legal and economic framework within which trade unions have functi...
As customary socio-economic relationships between the inhabitants of Newfoundland broke down, normal...
This thesis attempts to describe the multiplex fisher- merchant relationships as they were experienc...
The thesis investigates the emergence of capitalist relations of production in the British Columbia ...