Working People in Alberta (eBook, ePUB)

A History
Redaktion: Finkel, Alvin

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Working People in Alberta traces the history of labour in Alberta from the period of First Nations occupation to the present. Drawing on over two hundred interviews with labour leaders, activists, and ordinary working people, as well as on archival records, the volume gives voice to the people who have toiled in Alberta over the centuries. In so doing, it seeks to counter the view of Alberta as a one-class, one-party, one-ideology province, in which distinctions between those who work and those who own are irrelevant. Workers from across the generations tell another tale, of an ongoing collective struggle to improve their economic and social circumstances in the face of a dominant, exploitative elite. Their stories are set within a sequential analysis of provincial politics and economics, supplemented by chapters on women and the labour movement and on minority workers of colour and their quest for social justice.

Published on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Alberta Federation of Labour, Working People in Alberta contrasts the stories of workers who were union members and those who were not. In its depictions of union organizing drives, strikes, and working-class life in cities and towns, this lavishly illustrated volume creates a composite portrait of the men and women who have worked to build and sustain the province of Alberta.

With contributions by Jason Foster, Winston Gereluk, Jennifer Kelly and Dan Cui, James Muir, Joan Schiebelbein, Jim Selby, and Eric Strikwerda

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Athabasca University Press and Canadian Committee on Labour History
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781926836607
• Artikelnr.: 37983522

Autorenporträt

Alvin Finkel is a professor of Canadian history atAthabasca University, where he has taught since 1978. Best known as theco-author (with Margaret Conrad) of the two-volume History of theCanadian Peoples, his main areas of research and teaching are thehistory of social policy, labour history, and Western Canadian history.

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Acknowledgements
Introduction: Those Who Built Alberta / Alvin Finkel
1          Millennia ofNative Work / Alvin Finkel
2          The Fur Trade andEarly European Settlement / Alvin Finkel
3          One Step Forward:Alberta Workers 1885-1914 / Jim Selby
4          War, Repression,and Depression, 1914-1939 / Eric Strikwerda and
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5          Alberta Labourand Working-Class Life, 1940-1959 / James Muir
6          The BoomersBecome the Workers: Alberta, 1960-1980 / AlvinFinkel
7          Alberta Labour inthe 1980s / Winston Gereluk
8          Revolution,Retrenchment, and the New Normal: The 1990s and
Beyond / JasonFoster
9          Women, Labour,and the Labour Movement / Joan Schiebelbein
10        Racialization and Work / Jennifer Kelly and Dan Cui
Conclusion: A History to Build Upon / Alvin Finkel
 
Notes
Bibliography
Contributors
Index