Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Politics and the State in the Nineteenth Century -- 3. Making Indians -- 4. The Underground Economy: The Mining Frontier to 1920 -- 5. Class, Ethnicity, and Conflict: The Case of Chinese and Japanese Immigrants, 1880-1923 -- 6. Relations of Production and Collective Action in the Salmon Fishery, 1900-1925 -- 7. Workers, Class, and Industrial Conflict in New Westminster, 1900-1930 -- 8. Class and Community in the Fraser Mills Strike, 1931 -- 9. Ethnicity and Class in the Farm Labour Process -- 10. Public Policy, Capital, and Labour in the Forest Industry -- 11. Workers' Control of B.C. Telephone: The Shape of Things to Come? -- 12. The Rise of Non-Manual Work in British Columbia -- 13. The Class Relations of Public Schoolteachers in British Columbia -- 14. Conclusion: Capitalist Social Relations in British Columbia.