Indigenous Women, Work, and History : 1940-1980.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Tables and Illustrations -- Introduction -- Labour -- Modernity -- The State -- Methodology -- Chapter One - Sweeping the Nation: Indigenous Women and Domestic Labour in Mid-Twentieth-Century Canada -- Indigenous Women and Household Labour -- Indigenous Domestic Labour in Indian Schools and Hospitals -- The Ottawa Experiment -- Conclusion -- Chapter Two - The Permanent Solution: The Placement and Relocation Program, Hairdressers, and Beauty Culture -- The Indian Placement and Relocation Program -- Initiating the Program -- Framing the Program -- The Program at Work -- Imagery and Representations of Indigenous Urban Labour -- Hairdressing and Indigenous Women's Urban Labour -- Wages and Integration -- Entrepreneurship and Loans -- Conclusion -- Chapter Three - An Early Labour History of Community Health Representatives, 1960-1970 -- Background -- Selection -- Training -- CHR Responsibilities and MSB Authority -- Conclusion -- Chapter Four - Gaining Recognition: Labour as Activism among Indigenous Nurses -- "Promoting and striving for better health for the Indian people": RN CIA, Nursing, and Indian Control of Indian Health -- Indian Control -- The Colonial History of Medical Services Branch -- RNCIA Nursing Ethic -- "To actively develop a means of recruiting more people of Indianancestry": Labour Issues and the Medical Services Branch -- A Long History of Health Care Labour -- Registered Nurses and the Medical Services Branch -- Maintenance, Housekeeping, "Helpers" and Paraprofessional Labour -- "To develop and encourage courses in the educational system…on Indian health": Aboriginal Nurse Education: From Barriers toSuccession -- Colour Bars, Funding, and Nursing Programs -- Indigenous Interventions into Nursing Education -- Conclusion -- Conclusion - The Wages of Whiteness and the Indigenous Historian.

Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter One - Sweeping the Nation: Indigenous Women and Domestic Labour in Mid-Twentieth-Century Canada -- Chapter Two - The Permanent Solution: The Placement and Relocation Program, Hairdressers, and Beauty Culture -- Chapter Three - An Early Labour History of Community Health Representatives, 1960-1970 -- Chapter Four: Gaining Recognition: Labour as Activism Among Indigenous Nurses -- Conclusion: The Wages of Whiteness and the Indigenous Historian -- Bibliography -- Unpublished Primary Sources -- Published Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Index.

A modern history of Indigenous labour in the Canadian workforce.

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