ORPP logo

Working People in Alberta : A History.

Finkel, Alvin.

Working People in Alberta : A History. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (358 pages) - Working Canadians: Books from the CCLH Series . - Working Canadians: Books from the CCLH Series .

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- INTRODUCTION: Those Who Built Alberta -- 1 Millennia of Native Work -- 2 The Fur Trade and Early European Settlement -- 3 One Step Forward: Alberta Workers 1885-1914 -- 4 War, Repression, and Depression, 1914-1939 -- 5 Alberta Labour and Working-Class Life, 1940-1959 -- 6 The Boomers Become the Workers: Alberta, 1960-1980 -- 7 Alberta Labour in the 1980s -- 8 Revolution, Retrenchment, and the New Normal: The 1990s and Beyond -- 9 Women, Labour, and the Labour Movement -- 10 Racialization and Work -- CONCLUSION: A History to Build Upon -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

A political and economic analysis of the history of working people in Alberta.

9781926836591


Labor--Alberta--History.
Working class--Alberta--History.
Alberta--Economic conditions.
Alberta--Economic policy.


Electronic books.

HD5726.B53 .F889 201

331.097123

© 2024 Resource Centre. All rights reserved.