| Working People in Alberta: A History Contributor(s): Finkel, Alvin (Author) |
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ISBN: 1926836588 ISBN-13: 9781926836584 Publisher: Athabasca University Press OUR PRICE: $43.65 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Canada - General - Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations |
| Dewey: 331.097 |
| LCCN: 2012397853 |
| Series: Working Canadians: Books from the CCLH |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 10.4" W x 9" (2.91 lbs) 360 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
