Title Indigenous women, work, and history, 1940-1980 / Mary Jane Logan McCallum

Published Winnipeg : University of Manitoba Press, [2014] ©2014

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 320 pages) : illustrations Series Critical studies in Native history, 1925-5888 ; 16 Critical studies in native history ; 16. Contents Sweeping the Nation: Indigenous women and domestic labour in mid-twentieth-century Canada -- Permanent solution: the placement and relocation program, hairdressers, and beauty culture -- Early labour history of community health representatives, 1960-1970 -- Gaining recognition: labour as activism among Indigenous nurses -- Wages of whiteness and the indigenous historian Summary Based on a range of sources including the records of the Departments of Indian Affairs and National Health and Welfare, interviews. print, and media, McCallum shows how state-run education and placement programs were part of Canada's larger vision of assimilation and extinguishment of treaty obligations. Conversely, she also shows how Indigenous women link these same programs to their social and cultural responsibilities of community building and state resistance Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-312) and index Notes Text in English Print version record Subject Indian women -- Canada -- Economic conditions -- 20th century Indian women -- Canada -- Social conditions -- 20th century Indian women -- Employment -- Canada -- History -- 20th century Indian women -- Canada -- History -- 20th century Indian women -- Employment -- Canada -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies Indigenous women -- Canada -- Economic conditions -- 20th century Indigenous women -- Canada -- Social conditions -- 20th century Indigenous women -- Employment -- Canada -- History -- 20th century Indigenous women -- Employment -- Canada -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies Indigenous women -- Canada -- History -- 20th century SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. Indigenous women Indian women -- Social conditions Indian women -- Employment Indian women -- Economic conditions Indian women Economic history Indigene Frau Hausarbeit Arbeit Gesundheitserziehung SUBJECT Canada -- Economic conditions -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85019304 Subject Canada Kanada Genre/Form Electronic books History Case studies Form Electronic book ISBN 9780887554308 088755430X 0887554326 9780887554322

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