{"product_id":"9781442691124","title":"Citizen Docker: Making a New Deal on the Vancouver Waterfront, 1919-1939","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter the First World War, many Canadians were concerned with the possibility of national regeneration. Progressive-minded politicians, academics, church leaders, and social reformers turned increasingly to the state for solutions. Yet, as significant as the state was in articulating and instituting a new morality, outside actors such as employers were active in pursuing reform agendas as well, taking aim at the welfare of the family, citizen, and nation. \u003ci\u003eCitizen Docker\u003c\/i\u003e considers this trend, focusing on the Vancouver waterfront as a case in point.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter the war, waterfront employers embarked on an ambitious program ? welfare capitalism ? to ease industrial relations, increase the efficiency of the port, and, ultimately, recondition longshoremen themselves. Andrew Parnaby considers these reforms as a microcosm of the process of accommodation between labour and capital that affected Canadian society as a whole in the 1920s and 1930s. By creating a new sense of entitlement among waterfront workers, one that could not be satisfied by employers during the Great Depression, welfare capitalism played an important role in the cultural transformation that took place after the Second World War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEncompassing labour and gender history, aboriginal studies, and the study of state formation, \u003ci\u003eCitizen Docker\u003c\/i\u003e examines the deep shift in the aspirations of working people, and the implications that shift had on Canadian society in the interwar years and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47140120887536,"sku":"9781442691124","price":33.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781442691124_p0.jpg?v=1763808810","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781442691124","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}