Rural and Urban Labour Processes: A Comparative Analysis of Australian and Canadian Development‪.‬

Introduction "MODERN ENVIRONMENTS and experiences," as Marshall Berman aptly stated, "cut across all boundaries of geography and ethnicity, of class and nationality, of religion and ideology." (1) It should not be forgotten, however, that people form distinct societies and that past generations of Australian and Canadian peoples have not simply lived and worked in replicas of major industrial centres such as the British Midlands or the American Midwest. The main difficulty in comparing how Australian and Canadian workers have been socialized to and disciplined by conditions of capitalist production, arises from the perennial issue of first determining what can be considered representative work settings in both countries. Addressing this issue is anything but a simple matter, for as David Harvey contends, it pertains to "one of the more startling schisms in our intellectual heritage concerning conceptions of time and space." (2)