Citizen Docker : : Making a New Deal on the Vancouver Waterfront, 1919-1939 / / Andrew Parnaby.
After the First World War, many Canadians were concerned with the possibility of national regeneration. Progressive-minded politicians, academics, church leaders, and social reformers turned increasingly to the state for solutions. Yet, as significant as the state was in articulating and instituting...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Canadian Social History Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: 'A Good Citizen Policy'
- 1. Welfare Capitalism on the Waterfront
- 2. Securing a Square Deal
- 3. 'The Best Men That Ever Worked the Lumber'
- 4. Heavy Lifting
- 5. 'From the Fury of Democracy, Good Lord, Deliver Us!'
- Conclusion: From Square Deal to New Deal
- Notes
- References
- Index