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UNINA9910787501403321 |
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Autore |
Danysk Cecilia |
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Hired hands : labour and the development of prairie agriculture, 1880-1930 / / Cecilia Danysk |
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Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2014 |
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1-4426-5990-4 |
1-4426-5531-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (234 p.) |
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Canadian Social History Series |
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Agricultural laborers - Prairie Provinces - History |
Agriculture - Prairie Provinces - History |
Prairie Provinces |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Preface -- Introduction -- Labour-capital relations in Prairie agriculture -- Beginnings, 1870s-1900 -- Expansion, 1900-1918 -- Consolidation, 1918-1930 -- Appendix. |
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Farm workers were central to the development of Canada's prairie West. From 1878, when the first shipment of prairie grain went to international markets, to 1929, when the Great Depression signalled the end of the wheat boom, the role of hired hands changed dramatically. Prior to World War One, hired hands viewed themselves and were treated in the rural community as equals to their farmer employers. Many were farmers in training, informal apprentices who worked for wages so they could accumulate the capital and experience needed to secure their own free 160-acre parcels of land. In later years, as free lands were taken, hired hands increasingly faced the hkehhood of remaining waged labourers on the farms of others. They became agricultural proletarians.In this first full-length study of labour in Canadian prairie agriculture during the period of settlement and expansion, Cecilia Danysk examines the changing work and the growing rural community of the West through the eyes of the workers |
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themselves. World War One was a catalyst in bringing into focus the conflicting nature of labour-capital relations and the divergent aims of workers and their employers. Yet, attempts at union organization were unsuccessful because most hired hands worked alone and because governments assisted farmers by stifling such attempts. The workers' greatest form of workplace control was to walk off one job and find another.Previously published by McClelland & Stewart. |
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UNINA9910488694503321 |
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Autore |
Wen Tiejun |
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Ten Crises : The Political Economy of China's Development (1949-2020) / / by Tiejun Wen |
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2021 |
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Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021 |
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[1st ed. 2021.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (538 p.) |
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Global University for Sustainability Book Series, , 2752-7387 |
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BUS023000BUS039000BUS051000BUS069000BUS069030BUS092000 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Economic history |
Finance, Public |
Development economics |
Econometrics |
Macroeconomics |
Economy-wide Country Studies |
Public Economics |
Economic History |
Development Economics |
Quantitative Economics |
Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Chapter 1: The First Crisis 1949-1950 -- Chapter 2: The Second to Fourth Crises 1958-1976 -- Chapter 3: The Fifth to Seventh Crises 1978-1996 -- Chapter 4: The Eighth and Ninth Crises 1997 and 2008 -- Chapter 5: The Tenth Crisis 2013-the present. |
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This open access book contextualizes China's 70 years of contemporary history against one coherent backdrop: a late developing country endeavoring at all costs to industrialize, whether it was in the name of socialism or capitalism. This path is even more complicated by China's getting caught in the geo-political confrontation of two superpowers in the 20th century: the Soviet Union and the USA. The author argues that China could only cope with these costs by internalizing them. As one of the leading scholars of agrarian issues in China, the author emphasizes the role of rural sector having been a source of surplus extraction for industrialization and the receptor of cost of development being transferred by the urban sector. This book is the first volume of the Global University for Sustainability Book Series published with Palgrave Macmillan. |
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