Robert H Babcock
Biographic Data
| ID | 1451289 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert H Babcock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert H |
| FAMILY NAME | Babcock |
| SIGNATURE | BABCOCK R H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maine |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Will you walk? Yes, we'll walk!”
Walking out to Deering Plodding through the dust. Walking out to Deering Just because we must. strike poem in the [Portland] Daily Press, 14 July 1916
Administering Danger in the Workplace
The Mormon Presence in Canada
The Decline of Artisan Republicanism in Portland, Maine, 1825-1850
ON a crisp autumn day in 1841, hundreds of craftsmen paraded through the streets of Portland, Maine, in a fervent display of solidarity. Marching were housewrights, masons, plasterers, and stonecutters from the building trades, and blacksmiths, machinists, coppersmiths, brass founders, and tinplate workers from among the sons of Vulcan. Shipbuilders, joiners, caulkers, pump and block makers, mast and rope makers, riggers, and sailmakers left thei…
Saint John Longshoremen during the Rise of Canada's Winter Port, 1895-1922
During the 19th century a longshoring tradition emerged out of the booming lumber trade in Saint John. Shiplabourers' organizations periodically vied with local merchants for control of the waterfront casual labour market. Work-bred feelings of mutualism were frequently undermined by job, ethnic, and religious segmentation. Despite the introduction of steamers, the longshore labour process remained relatively unchanged. The situation changed at t…
Once a Cigar Maker
A Note on the Toronto Printers' Strike, 1872
The Toronto printers' strike of 1872 stands out as one of the most impor tant events in Canadian labour history, and the story has already been told from several different perspectives. Two decades ago the biographers of Macdonald and Brown presented it from the viewpoint of their protagonists, while Bernard Ostry placed the episode in the context of Grit and Tory politics in the 1870s. More recently Sally Zerker has covered some of the same grou…
A Newfoundland Printer on the Tramp
LONG BEFORE THE INDUSTRIAL revolution in England, skilled artisans left their homes at intervals, travelling from town to town and taking work if it was available or simply receiving a tramp allowance ? supper, lodging, and perhaps some beer ? from their brethren in the same trade. According to E.J. Hobsbawm, the custom developed as a method of unemployment relief and may have originated among woollen workers in the West Country of England.1 Tram…
Trade Unions and Imperialism in America
Economic Development in Portland (Me.) and Saint John (N.B.) During the Age of Iron and Steam, 1850–1914
(1979). ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN PORTLAND (ME.) AND SAINT JOHN (N.B.) DURING THE AGE OF IRON AND STEAM, 1850–1914. American Review of Canadian Studies: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 3-37
Books on Canada
Gompers in Canada
Journal Article Gompers in Canada: a study in American continentalism before the First World War. By Robert H. Babcock. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1974. xiv + 292 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. Paper, $4.95.) Get access Joseph A. Boudreau Joseph A. Boudreau San Jose State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 63, I…
The Communist Party in Canada
Journal Article The Communist Party in Canada: A History. By Ivan Avakumovic. (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1975. x + 309 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. Paper, $5.95.) Get access Robert H. Babcock Robert H. Babcock University of Maine, Orono Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 62, Issue 4, March 1976, Pages 1053–1054, https://doi.org/10.2307/1903945 Publishe…
Books on Canada
Samuel Gompers and the French-Canadian Worker, 1900–1914
Current dissension among Quebec labor groups has its roots deep in the past. This essay argues that Samuel Gompers and the American Federation of Labor bear some responsibility for the contemporary divisions within Canadian labor. At the Berlin convention of the Trades and Labor Congress in 1902, AFL-affiliated international union delegates expelled seventeen groups containing the bulk of organized labor in Quebec. Gompers and his colleagues, sha…
Administering Danger in the Workplace
The Communist Party in Canada
Journal Article The Communist Party in Canada: A History. By Ivan Avakumovic. (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1975. x + 309 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. Paper, $5.95.) Get access Robert H. Babcock Robert H. Babcock University of Maine, Orono Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 62, Issue 4, March 1976, Pages 1053–1054, https://doi.org/10.2307/1903945 Publishe…
Will you walk? Yes, we'll walk!”
Walking out to Deering Plodding through the dust. Walking out to Deering Just because we must. strike poem in the [Portland] Daily Press, 14 July 1916
Saint John Longshoremen during the Rise of Canada's Winter Port, 1895-1922
During the 19th century a longshoring tradition emerged out of the booming lumber trade in Saint John. Shiplabourers' organizations periodically vied with local merchants for control of the waterfront casual labour market. Work-bred feelings of mutualism were frequently undermined by job, ethnic, and religious segmentation. Despite the introduction of steamers, the longshore labour process remained relatively unchanged. The situation changed at t…
A Note on the Toronto Printers' Strike, 1872
The Toronto printers' strike of 1872 stands out as one of the most impor tant events in Canadian labour history, and the story has already been told from several different perspectives. Two decades ago the biographers of Macdonald and Brown presented it from the viewpoint of their protagonists, while Bernard Ostry placed the episode in the context of Grit and Tory politics in the 1870s. More recently Sally Zerker has covered some of the same grou…
Samuel Gompers and the French-Canadian Worker, 1900–1914
Current dissension among Quebec labor groups has its roots deep in the past. This essay argues that Samuel Gompers and the American Federation of Labor bear some responsibility for the contemporary divisions within Canadian labor. At the Berlin convention of the Trades and Labor Congress in 1902, AFL-affiliated international union delegates expelled seventeen groups containing the bulk of organized labor in Quebec. Gompers and his colleagues, sha…
Books on Canada
Books on Canada
Gompers in Canada
Journal Article Gompers in Canada: a study in American continentalism before the First World War. By Robert H. Babcock. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1974. xiv + 292 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. Paper, $4.95.) Get access Joseph A. Boudreau Joseph A. Boudreau San Jose State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 63, I…
The Communist Party in Canada
Journal Article The Communist Party in Canada: A History. By Ivan Avakumovic. (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1975. x + 309 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. Paper, $5.95.) Get access Robert H. Babcock Robert H. Babcock University of Maine, Orono Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 62, Issue 4, March 1976, Pages 1053–1054, https://doi.org/10.2307/1903945 Publishe…
Economic Development in Portland (Me.) and Saint John (N.B.) During the Age of Iron and Steam, 1850–1914
(1979). ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN PORTLAND (ME.) AND SAINT JOHN (N.B.) DURING THE AGE OF IRON AND STEAM, 1850–1914. American Review of Canadian Studies: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 3-37
Trade Unions and Imperialism in America
A Note on the Toronto Printers' Strike, 1872
The Toronto printers' strike of 1872 stands out as one of the most impor tant events in Canadian labour history, and the story has already been told from several different perspectives. Two decades ago the biographers of Macdonald and Brown presented it from the viewpoint of their protagonists, while Bernard Ostry placed the episode in the context of Grit and Tory politics in the 1870s. More recently Sally Zerker has covered some of the same grou…
A Newfoundland Printer on the Tramp
LONG BEFORE THE INDUSTRIAL revolution in England, skilled artisans left their homes at intervals, travelling from town to town and taking work if it was available or simply receiving a tramp allowance ? supper, lodging, and perhaps some beer ? from their brethren in the same trade. According to E.J. Hobsbawm, the custom developed as a method of unemployment relief and may have originated among woollen workers in the West Country of England.1 Tram…
Once a Cigar Maker
The Decline of Artisan Republicanism in Portland, Maine, 1825-1850
ON a crisp autumn day in 1841, hundreds of craftsmen paraded through the streets of Portland, Maine, in a fervent display of solidarity. Marching were housewrights, masons, plasterers, and stonecutters from the building trades, and blacksmiths, machinists, coppersmiths, brass founders, and tinplate workers from among the sons of Vulcan. Shipbuilders, joiners, caulkers, pump and block makers, mast and rope makers, riggers, and sailmakers left thei…
Saint John Longshoremen during the Rise of Canada's Winter Port, 1895-1922
During the 19th century a longshoring tradition emerged out of the booming lumber trade in Saint John. Shiplabourers' organizations periodically vied with local merchants for control of the waterfront casual labour market. Work-bred feelings of mutualism were frequently undermined by job, ethnic, and religious segmentation. Despite the introduction of steamers, the longshore labour process remained relatively unchanged. The situation changed at t…
The Mormon Presence in Canada
Administering Danger in the Workplace
Will you walk? Yes, we'll walk!”
Walking out to Deering Plodding through the dust. Walking out to Deering Just because we must. strike poem in the [Portland] Daily Press, 14 July 1916
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