Eric W Sager
Biographic Data
| ID | 508331 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric W Sager |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric W |
| FAMILY NAME | Sager |
| SIGNATURE | SAGER E W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Victoria |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Lives in Transition: Longitudinal Analysis from Historical Sources, edited by Peter Baskerville and Kris Inwood
Women and Work in Hamilton, Ontario: A Case Study and a Research Challenge
Le présent article met à l’épreuve deux hypothèses concernant la participation des femmes sur le marché du travail à Hamilton en 1911 : premièrement, que les femmes célibataires occupaient des emplois rémunérés pour faire contrepoids au chômage ou à la sous-rémunération des hommes; deuxièmement, que les travaux ménagers dont il fallait s’occuper décourageaient les femmes célibataires d’intégrer le marché du travail. Aucune de ces hypothèses, véri…
CHR Forum: Canadian Historical Research and Pedagogy: A View from the Perspective of the Canadian Century Research Infrastructure
In this article we explore what the exploding world of humanities and social science research infrastructures might mean for teaching and research in the discipline of history. We focus closely on one example, that of the Canadian Century Research Infrastructure Project (ccri). This interdisciplinary and multi-university project has constructed an infrastructure composed of microdata from the nominal-level Canadian censuses from 1911 through 1951…
Women Teachers in Canada, 1881–1901: Revisiting the ‘Feminization’ of an Occupation
Using a mix of qualitative and quantitative approaches, this essay reconsiders the changing ratios of women to men in teaching in Canada in the late nineteenth century, and the relationship between macro-historical change and individual experience. The complete-coverage census micro-data for 1881 make it possible to explore possible associations between characteristics of 192 districts and the feminization of teaching in those districts. The hypo…
The Transformation of the Canadian Domestic Servant, 1871–1931
This article uses the national sample of the 1901 census of Canada to compare the earnings of live-in domestic servants with the earnings of women in other occupations and to examine the ethnoreligious backgrounds of domestic servants. The hypothesis that domestic service offered relative material advantages, when room and board are taken into account, is rejected. The hypothesis that female domestic servants came from a narrow range of specific …
Household Counts: Canadian Households and Families in 1901
The Canadian census taken in 1901 has surprising things to say about the family as a social grouping and cultural construct at the turn of the twentieth century. Although the nuclear-family household was the most frequent type of household, family was not a singular form or structure at all; rather, it was a fluid micro-social community through which people lived and moved. There was no one .traditional. family, but rather many types of families …
Immigrants, Ethnicity, and Earnings in 1901: Revisiting Canada's Vertical Mosaic
The relationship among ethnicity, occupation, and class has been a major focus of Canadian historical sociology. This article uses a national sample of the 1901 nominal census of Canada to test specific hypotheses about immigrants, ethnicity, occupation, and earnings. The evidence suggests that a simplified version of the ‘vertical mosaic’ hypothesis cannot be applied to Canada in 1901. First-generation immigrants were not streamed disproportiona…
Citizens and Nation: An Essay on History, Communication, and Canada
Introduction: The Canadian Families Project
The Canadian Families Project and the 1901 Census
Key Words: familycensusCanadapopulation
National Data on Working-Class Earnings: The 1901 Census of Canada
Key Words: laborincomeswagesfamilycensus
Unwilling Idlers: The Urban Unemployed and Their Families in Late Victorian Canada
Family history in canada: An Introduction
Contemporary debates about “family crisis” has led to a resurgence of interest in family history in Canada. The field builds on the strong tradition of demographic history in Quebec, and on historical sociology, historical geography, ethnohistory, and recent developments in cultural history. Recent projects in both Quebec and English Canada have accepted the challenge of international comparative analysis. Notes 1 Sessions on census data and on i…
Research note: The Canadian families project
The note describes the structure of the Canadian Families Project, its goals, the Canadian census sources the Project is incorporating into its data base, and the goals of the Project in light of previous work on the history of the family in Canada and internationally. The Project is collaborative, but it is also intended to be relational, in the sense that each subtheme researchers are exploring—space, class, gender, discourse, and others — feed…
Unemployment, living standards, and the working-class family in urban Canada in 1901
This article addresses a problem faced by many historians of living standards: what was the effect of unemployment on the real incomes of working-class families during industrialization? The 1901 Census of Canada offers a rare opportunity to answer this question, and to measure both unemployment and living standards while taking into account the contributions of all family wage-earners. The conclusion is that average weekly or monthly wages were …
Homer Stevens: A Life in Fishing
Maritime Capital: The Shipping Industry in Atlantic Canada, 1820-1914
Seafaring Labour in Maritime History and Working-Class History
Seafaring Labour: The Merchant Marine of Atlantic Canada, 1820-1914
Seafaring Labour: The Merchant Marine of Atlantic Canada, 1820-1914
Sager argues that sailors were not misfits or outcasts but were divorced from society only by virtue of their occupation. The wooden ships were small communities at sea, fragments of normal society where workers lived, struggled, and often died. With the coming of the age of steam, the sailor became part of a new division of labour and a new social hierarchy at sea. Sager shows that the sailor was as integral to the transition to industrial capit…
The First National Unemployment Survey: Unemployment and the Canadian Census of 1891
The 1891 census asked Canadians if they had been unemployed in the week preceding the taking of the census. On the basis of a preliminary analysis of responses from working class areas in British Columbia, we comment on the nature of this source, and on the possibility of using it to determine both the extent of unemployment and the characteristics of the unemployed. We demonstrate our conclusion that this source has significant utility by testin…
Whalers No More: A History of Whaling on the West Coast
My Life as a Newfoundland Union Organizer: The Memoirs of Cyril W. Strong, 1912-1987
The Maritime History Group and the History of Seafaring Labour
THE ARCHIVE OF THE Maritime History Group contains materials indispensable to the study of Newfoundland, the North Atlantic fisheries, and the merchant shipping of the British Empire. The archive is also a rich treasure for labour historians. British merchant shipping legislation, reflecting the concern of the British state to maintain a healthy merchant marine, required unusually thorough documentary accounts of the industry and its labour force…
Atlantic Canada and Confederation: Essays in Canadian Political Economy
The Canadian Families Project and the 1901 Census
Key Words: familycensusCanadapopulation
National Data on Working-Class Earnings: The 1901 Census of Canada
Key Words: laborincomeswagesfamilycensus
Unwilling Idlers: The Urban Unemployed and Their Families in Late Victorian Canada
Research note: The Canadian families project
The note describes the structure of the Canadian Families Project, its goals, the Canadian census sources the Project is incorporating into its data base, and the goals of the Project in light of previous work on the history of the family in Canada and internationally. The Project is collaborative, but it is also intended to be relational, in the sense that each subtheme researchers are exploring—space, class, gender, discourse, and others — feed…
Unemployment, living standards, and the working-class family in urban Canada in 1901
This article addresses a problem faced by many historians of living standards: what was the effect of unemployment on the real incomes of working-class families during industrialization? The 1901 Census of Canada offers a rare opportunity to answer this question, and to measure both unemployment and living standards while taking into account the contributions of all family wage-earners. The conclusion is that average weekly or monthly wages were …
The First National Unemployment Survey: Unemployment and the Canadian Census of 1891
The 1891 census asked Canadians if they had been unemployed in the week preceding the taking of the census. On the basis of a preliminary analysis of responses from working class areas in British Columbia, we comment on the nature of this source, and on the possibility of using it to determine both the extent of unemployment and the characteristics of the unemployed. We demonstrate our conclusion that this source has significant utility by testin…
My Life as a Newfoundland Union Organizer: The Memoirs of Cyril W. Strong, 1912-1987
Introduction: The Canadian Families Project
Seafaring Labour: The Merchant Marine of Atlantic Canada, 1820-1914
The Maritime History Group and the History of Seafaring Labour
THE ARCHIVE OF THE Maritime History Group contains materials indispensable to the study of Newfoundland, the North Atlantic fisheries, and the merchant shipping of the British Empire. The archive is also a rich treasure for labour historians. British merchant shipping legislation, reflecting the concern of the British state to maintain a healthy merchant marine, required unusually thorough documentary accounts of the industry and its labour force…
Religious Sources of English Pacifism from the Enlightenment to the Industrial Revolution
An Approach to the Quantitative Analysis of British Shipping Records
Atlantic Canada and the Age of Sail Revisited
Religious Sources of English Pacifism from the Enlightenment to the Industrial Revolution
Atlantic Canada and Confederation: Essays in Canadian Political Economy
The Maritime History Group and the History of Seafaring Labour
THE ARCHIVE OF THE Maritime History Group contains materials indispensable to the study of Newfoundland, the North Atlantic fisheries, and the merchant shipping of the British Empire. The archive is also a rich treasure for labour historians. British merchant shipping legislation, reflecting the concern of the British state to maintain a healthy merchant marine, required unusually thorough documentary accounts of the industry and its labour force…
Seafaring Labour: The Merchant Marine of Atlantic Canada, 1820-1914
Sager argues that sailors were not misfits or outcasts but were divorced from society only by virtue of their occupation. The wooden ships were small communities at sea, fragments of normal society where workers lived, struggled, and often died. With the coming of the age of steam, the sailor became part of a new division of labour and a new social hierarchy at sea. Sager shows that the sailor was as integral to the transition to industrial capit…
The First National Unemployment Survey: Unemployment and the Canadian Census of 1891
The 1891 census asked Canadians if they had been unemployed in the week preceding the taking of the census. On the basis of a preliminary analysis of responses from working class areas in British Columbia, we comment on the nature of this source, and on the possibility of using it to determine both the extent of unemployment and the characteristics of the unemployed. We demonstrate our conclusion that this source has significant utility by testin…
Whalers No More: A History of Whaling on the West Coast
My Life as a Newfoundland Union Organizer: The Memoirs of Cyril W. Strong, 1912-1987
Seafaring Labour in Maritime History and Working-Class History
Seafaring Labour: The Merchant Marine of Atlantic Canada, 1820-1914
Homer Stevens: A Life in Fishing
Maritime Capital: The Shipping Industry in Atlantic Canada, 1820-1914
Unemployment, living standards, and the working-class family in urban Canada in 1901
This article addresses a problem faced by many historians of living standards: what was the effect of unemployment on the real incomes of working-class families during industrialization? The 1901 Census of Canada offers a rare opportunity to answer this question, and to measure both unemployment and living standards while taking into account the contributions of all family wage-earners. The conclusion is that average weekly or monthly wages were …
Research note: The Canadian families project
The note describes the structure of the Canadian Families Project, its goals, the Canadian census sources the Project is incorporating into its data base, and the goals of the Project in light of previous work on the history of the family in Canada and internationally. The Project is collaborative, but it is also intended to be relational, in the sense that each subtheme researchers are exploring—space, class, gender, discourse, and others — feed…
Family history in canada: An Introduction
Contemporary debates about “family crisis” has led to a resurgence of interest in family history in Canada. The field builds on the strong tradition of demographic history in Quebec, and on historical sociology, historical geography, ethnohistory, and recent developments in cultural history. Recent projects in both Quebec and English Canada have accepted the challenge of international comparative analysis. Notes 1 Sessions on census data and on i…
The Canadian Families Project and the 1901 Census
Key Words: familycensusCanadapopulation
National Data on Working-Class Earnings: The 1901 Census of Canada
Key Words: laborincomeswagesfamilycensus
Unwilling Idlers: The Urban Unemployed and Their Families in Late Victorian Canada
Introduction: The Canadian Families Project
Immigrants, Ethnicity, and Earnings in 1901: Revisiting Canada's Vertical Mosaic
The relationship among ethnicity, occupation, and class has been a major focus of Canadian historical sociology. This article uses a national sample of the 1901 nominal census of Canada to test specific hypotheses about immigrants, ethnicity, occupation, and earnings. The evidence suggests that a simplified version of the ‘vertical mosaic’ hypothesis cannot be applied to Canada in 1901. First-generation immigrants were not streamed disproportiona…
Citizens and Nation: An Essay on History, Communication, and Canada
Household Counts: Canadian Households and Families in 1901
The Canadian census taken in 1901 has surprising things to say about the family as a social grouping and cultural construct at the turn of the twentieth century. Although the nuclear-family household was the most frequent type of household, family was not a singular form or structure at all; rather, it was a fluid micro-social community through which people lived and moved. There was no one .traditional. family, but rather many types of families …
Women Teachers in Canada, 1881–1901: Revisiting the ‘Feminization’ of an Occupation
Using a mix of qualitative and quantitative approaches, this essay reconsiders the changing ratios of women to men in teaching in Canada in the late nineteenth century, and the relationship between macro-historical change and individual experience. The complete-coverage census micro-data for 1881 make it possible to explore possible associations between characteristics of 192 districts and the feminization of teaching in those districts. The hypo…
The Transformation of the Canadian Domestic Servant, 1871–1931
This article uses the national sample of the 1901 census of Canada to compare the earnings of live-in domestic servants with the earnings of women in other occupations and to examine the ethnoreligious backgrounds of domestic servants. The hypothesis that domestic service offered relative material advantages, when room and board are taken into account, is rejected. The hypothesis that female domestic servants came from a narrow range of specific …
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