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- Title: Solemn Processions and Terrifying Violence: Spectacle, Authority, And Citizenship During the Lachine Canal Strike of 1843 (Report)
- Author : Dan Horner
- Release Date : January 22, 2010
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 143 KB
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During the winter of 1843, over one thousand Irish migrant labourers hired to work on the expansion of the Lachine Canal near Montreal struck for higher wages. In the months that followed, they employed a range of public spectacles including nocturnal processions, charivaris, riots, and parades to intimidate their economic rivals and lobby for support from the broader community. These crowd events played a pivotal role in the way that elites were re-conceptualizing the city, citizenship, and their own authority at the dawn of a period that would see Montreal transformed by mass immigration and the entrenchment of a capitalist economy. They also offer some insight into what the city meant to the striking canal workers as an engine of exploitation as well as a site of refuge and resistance. Pendant l'hiver de 1843, plus de mille ouvriers migrants irlandais embauches pour travailler a l'agrandissement du Canal de Lachine pres de Montreal font la greve pour revendiquer des salaires plus eleves. Dans les mois qui suivent, ils emploient un eventail de manifestations publiques, y compris processions nocturnes, charivaris, emeutes et parades, afin d'intimider leurs rivaux economiques et faire pression pour le soutien de la collectivite en general. Ces rassemblements ont joue un role central dans la facon dont les elites ont re-conceptualise" la ville, la citoyennete et leur propre autorite a l'aube d'une periode qui verra Montreal transforme par l'immigration massive et l'enracinement d'une economic capitaliste. Ils offrent egalement un apercu de ce que la ville representait pour les ouvriers grevistes en tant que moteur d'exploitation et lieu de refuge et de resistance.