Cheap Wage Labour

Cheap Wage Labour is the first analysis of shore work and shoreworkers in British Columbia from the 1860s to the mid-1980s. Muszynski provides an interpretation of events that led to the creation of a cheap wage labour force of shoreworkers, their organization within the framework of the fishermen''s union (UFAWU), and, as a consequence, the steady decline of their numbers until today they represe...