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Author Strikwerda, Eric

Title The Wages of Relief : Cities and the Unemployed in Prairie Canada, 1929-39
Published Edmonton : Athabasca University Press and Canadian Committee on Labour History, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (334 pages)
Series Working Canadians: Books from the CCLH
Working Canadians: Books from the CCLH
Summary The Wages of Relief examines the Depression experiences of three municipal governments-Edmonton, Saskatoon, and Winnipeg-and the individuals and families who relied on them for unemployment relief through the 1930s
Notes Print version record
Subject Public welfare administration -- Prairie Provinces -- History -- 20th century
Municipal government -- Prairie Provinces -- History -- 20th century
Unemployed -- Government policy -- Prairie Provinces -- History -- 20th century
Urban economics -- History -- 20th century
Cities and towns -- Social aspects -- Prairie Provinces -- History -- 20th century
Cities and towns -- Social aspects
Municipal government
Public welfare administration
Unemployed -- Government policy
Urban economics
Prairie Provinces
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781927356074
1927356075