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HISTORY / LABOUR STUDIES Capital and Labour in the British Columbia Forest Industry, 1934-74 Gordon Hak OCTOBER 2006 272 pages, est., 6 x 9” 2 maps, 2 tables, 20 b/w photos 0-7748-1307-5 / 978-0-7748-1307-5 hc $85.00 The history of British Columbia’s economy in the 20th century is inextricably bound to the development of the forest industry. In this comprehensive study, Gordon Hak approaches this link from the perspective of workers and employers in the industry, examining the two main institutions that structured this relationship during the Fordist era: the companies and the unions. Hak investigates the broad relationship between capital and labour in a historical context, focusing on the corporations and their employees, but also taking account of the roles played by the state and environmental organizations. Drawing on theories of Fordism, the labour process, and discursive subjectivity, he relates daily routines of production and profitmaking to broader forces of unionism, business ideology, ecological protest, technological change, and corporate concentration. The struggle of the small business sector to survive in the face of corporate growth, the interior and coastal histories of the industry, the transformations in capital-labour relations during the period, and the forestry industry’s encounter with the emerging environmental movement are all considered in Hak’s eloquent analysis. Taking a critical historical perspective on the forest industry in British Columbia, Capital and Labour in the British Columbia Forest Industry will be essential reading for anyone interested in the business, natural resource, political, social, and labour history of the province. “This is a very well-written book that makes important scholarly contributions to a number of disciplines … It uses a rich variety of sources and methods to combine economic history with cultural, political, labour, and social history in ways that will challenge and inspire all BC and Canadian historians.” Gordon Hak is a member of the History Department at Malaspina University- College. – Mark Leier, Professor of History and Director of the Centre for Labour Studies at Simon Fraser University » Also available Clearcutting the Pacific Rain Forest Production, Science, and Regulation Richard A. Rajala 1998, 312 pages, 0-7748-0591-9 / 978-0-7748-0591-9 paper $29.95 Flexible Crossroads The Restructuring of British Columbia’s Forest Economy Roger Hayter 2000, 448 pages, 0-7748-0776-8 / 978-0-7748-0776-0 paper $29.95 18 www.ubcpress.ca / 1 877 864 8477
ART / HISTORY Unsettling Encounters First Nations Imagery in the Art of Emily Carr Gerta Moray National Visions, National Blindness Canadian Art and Identities in the 1920s Leslie Dawn 2006, 400 pages, 8.5 x 12” 200 b/w and 90 colour illustrations, 4 maps 0-7748-1282-6 / 978-0-7748-1282-5 hc $75.00 2006, 456 pages, est., 6 x 9” 26 b/w photos 0-7748-1217-6 / 978-0-7748-1217-7 hc $85.00 Gerta Moray is a professor of Art History at the University of Guelph. “This is an erudite, richly illustrated, and compelling narrative of how Carr related to the First Nations imagery that brought her national recognition and iconic status. Gerta Moray’s extraordinary account is sensitive to language, gender, colonial, and racial issues, reconstructing a multi-layered and well-researched context for Carr’s expeditions. Avoiding simplistic oppositions, Unsettling Encounters keeps the expressive drive and creative ambitions of Emily Carr firmly in the centre.” – Johanne Lamoureux, Université de Montréal Unsettling Encounters radically re-examines Emily Carr’s achievement in representing Native life on the Northwest Coast in her painting and writing. By reconstructing a neglected body of Carr’s work that was central in shaping her vision and career, it makes possible a new assessment of her significance as a leading figure in early twentieth-century North American modernism. Gerta Moray vividly recreates the rapidly changing historical and social circumstances in which Carr painted and wrote. She lived and worked in British Columbia at a time when the growing settler population was rapidly taking over and developing the land and its resources. Moray argues that Carr’s work takes on its full significance only when it is seen as a conscious intervention in Nativesettler relations. She examines the work in the context of images of Native peoples then being constructed by missionaries and anthropologists and exploited by promoters of world’s fairs and museums. Carr’s famous, highly expressive later paintings were based to a great extent on her early experiences of travel to First Nations communities. At the same time they were a response to the hopes and anxieties that attended the rapid modernization of North American culture in the 1920s and ’30s. Moray explores Carr’s participation, with the Group of Seven, in an agenda of building a national culture and her sense of her position as a woman artist in this masculine arena. Unsettling Encounters is the definitive study of Carr’s ‘Indian’ images, locating them within both the local context of Canadian history and the wider international currents of visual culture. Leslie Dawn is a professor in the Department of Art at the University of Lethbridge. » Also available Tales of Ghosts First Nations Art in British Columbia, 1922-61 Ronald W. Hawker – see page 48 In the 1920s a complex set of relationships linked the construction of a unified Canadian identity to the imperial centre (England), to the depiction of the landscape as an imagined national geography in the works of the Group of Seven, and to the image of the “Indian” as a disappearing race. In National Visions, National Blindness, Leslie Dawn unravels these connections by revisiting and radically revising several well-known events and rescuing others from obscurity. Using new archival evidence, he reverses many of the conventional perceptions of the Group as a national school, and shows how, in a series of international exhibitions held in London and Paris, conflicts arose between their unpeopled landscapes and the presence of Northwest Coast Native peoples and arts. The book also reveals how the portraits of Native peoples of western Canada by the American artist Langdon Kihn served to undermine the principle of Native disappearance on which the Group’s works were based. Tracing this conflicted history through two state-sponsored programs among the Gitxsan people of the Upper Skeena River to the landmark 1927 exhibition which brought these elements all together and staged the “discovery” of Emily Carr, Dawn shows how these programs ultimately failed, but at the same time opened the door to other directions. Based on current theories but written in an accessible and engaging style, this book will appeal to readers and researchers interested in Canadian art history, First Nations art and history, tourism, cultural politics, museum studies, and ethnographic practice. www.ubcpress.ca / 1 877 864 8477 19
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