ABSTRACT
The practice of management in Canada has historically been shaped by different factors like social, economic, cultural, and political influences. This chapter focuses on the making of managers, and considers how managers of different forms learned to do their jobs. This analysis begins by discussing existing historical literature, with particular emphasis on labour and working-class history because Canadian labour historians have said much more about management than their colleagues in business history even though they have primarily described management through the eyes of workers. The chapter also describes how the theories and beliefs guided the shaping of managers. Indeed, as Craven additionally noted, the 1349 Statute of Labourers introduced in England following the Black Death was a forerunner to subsequent laws, and it gave justices of the peace the power to force able-bodied men and women to work for any master that required his or her services.
