CANADIAN LABOR UNION MEMBERSHIP
By Samatha Oliver
General Characteristics of Agricultural, Industrial, and Information Age Labor Union Membership
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Agricultural Age Labor Union Membership:
No labor unions: labor not yet urbanized or organized: peasant uprisings in rural areas are laregely spontaneous.
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Industrial Age Labor Union Membership:
Rise of labor unions in Western capitalist countries, not socalist countries (where dictatorship of the proletariat or state was supposed to represesent workers). Adversal relations between worker and owner or managers in industrial Western countries.
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Information Age Labor Union Membership:
Decline in labor union membership in capitalist countries, with decreasing blue collar jobs. Also movement towards worker ownership of stock in companies they work in, making them both workers and owners, thus eliminating this traditional adversarial relationship. Recent rise of mass protests by workers in communist countries, demanding better conditions, led to end of communism in some countries.
Information/Data on Canadian Labor Union Membership
Canada do have labour unions. Labor force: 13,380,000; services 75%, manufacturing 14%, agriculture 4%, construction 3%, oter 4%. Organized labor: 30.6% of labor force; 39.6% of nonagricultural paid workers.
Conclusions on Canada (Whether Primarily Agricultural, Industrial, or Information Age Re: Labor Union Membership)
Canada is in the agricultural age.
Additional Online Sources on Canadian Labor Union Membership
Traditional Bibliographic Sources on Canadian Labor Union Membership
- Encyclopedia of the Nations (no author).
- CIA World Fact Book.
- Encyclopedia Brittanica.
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