The wages of relief : cities and the unemployed in prairie Canada, 1929-39 / / Eric Strikwerda
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| Autore: |
Strikwerd Eric
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| Titolo: |
The wages of relief : cities and the unemployed in prairie Canada, 1929-39 / / Eric Strikwerda
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| Pubblicazione: | Athabasca University Press, 2013 |
| Edmonton, Alberta : , : AU Press, , 2013 | |
| ©2013 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (323 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 361.6/10971209043 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Prairie Provinces Economic conditions 1905-1945 |
| Prairie Provinces Social conditions 1905-1945 | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | government |
| cities | |
| urban | |
| Depression | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | The Rise of the City Relief Machines -- The Anatomy of City Relief -- Building Cities -- Unemployed Men at Work -- Local Responsibility in Decline. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The wages of relief |
| ISBN: | 1-927356-07-5 |
| 1-927356-06-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 996210799103316 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. di Salerno |
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Working Canadians (Edmonton, Alta.)