Hired Hands : : Labour and the Development of Prairie Agriculture, 1880-1930 / / Cecilia Danysk.
Farm workers were central to the development of Canada's prairie West. From 1878, when the first shipment of prairie grain went to international markets, to 1929, when the Great Depression signalled the end of the wheat boom, the role of hired hands changed dramatically. Prior to World War One,...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©1995 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Canadian Social History Series
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (231 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Labour-Capital Relations in Prairie Agriculture
- Part I. Beginnings, 1870s-1900
- 3. Recruiting the Agricultural Labour Force
- Part II. Expansion, 1900-1918
- 4. Agricultural Labour as Apprenticeship
- 5. Class, Culture, and Community
- 6. The Nature of Work
- Part III. Consolidation, 1918-1930
- 7. Proletarianization
- 8. The Dialectic of Consent and Resistance
- 9. Conclusion
- Appendix
- Notes
- Index
- Backmatter