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Article: Unfair masters and rascally servants? Labour relations among bourgeois, clerks and voyageurs in the Montreal fur trade, 1780-1821.
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- Labour/Le Travail
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- March 22, 1999
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Carolyn Podruchny, "Unfair Masters and Rascally Servants? Labour Relations Between Bourgeois and Voyageurs in the Montreal Fur Trade, 1770-1820," Labour/Le Travail, 43 (Spring 1999), 43-70.
THE HISTORY OF WORKING PEOPLES in the fur trade has recently become a subject of concentrated interest. (1) The publication of Edith Burley's Servants of the Honourable Country, which explores the master and servant relationship between Orkney workers and Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) officers stands as an important development in focussing attention squarely on the workers themselves, and demonstrates the extent of their power through insubordination and resistance. (2) A ...