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Working People in Alberta
Author | : Alvin Finkel |
Publsiher | : Athabasca University Press |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781926836584 |
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A political and economic analysis of the history of working people in Alberta.
Alberta Labour
Author | : Warren Caragata |
Publsiher | : James Lorimer & Company |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1979-01-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0888622643 |
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History has traditionally taken the working man for granted, ignoring the fact that without his labour there would be no history. As this book shows, the history of working people in Canada is colourful, exciting and filled with many dramatic characters and events well worth discovering. Alberta Labour traces the growth of union organizations in Alberta like the Knights of Labour in the 1880s, the legendary Wobblies, the abortive One Big Union and finally the Alberta Federation of Labour, founded in 1912, which today represents and fights for the labouring men and women of the province. This history, the first of its kind, has been compiled from interviews with union members, original letters and documents, and contemporary newspapers and magazines. The text is illustrated with over 90 full-page photographs, most of them never published before, depicting labour at work in Alberta from its origins to the present day.
Alberta Formed Alberta Transformed
Author | : Alberta 2005 Centennial History Society |
Publsiher | : University of Alberta |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 2006-04-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1552381943 |
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Alberta Formed Alberta Transformed is a two-volume set spanning a remarkable 12,000 years of history and showcasing the work of 34 of Alberta's most respected scholars. Volume 1 sets the stage from human beginnings in Alberta to the eve of Alberta's inauguration as a province in 1905, while Volume 2 takes readers through the twentieth century and up to the 2005 centennial.
Union Power
Author | : Carmela Patrias,Larry Savage |
Publsiher | : Athabasca University Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781926836782 |
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From factory workers in Welland to retail workers in St. Catharines, from hospitality workers in Niagara Falls to migrant farm workers in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Union Power showcases the role of working people in the Niagara region. Early industrial development and the appalling working conditions of the often vulnerable common labourer prompted a movement toward worker protection. Charting the development of the region's labour movement from the early nineteenth century to the present, Patrias and Savage illustrate how workers from this highly diversified economy struggled to improve their lives both inside and outside the workplace.
Bucking Conservatism
Author | : Leon Crane Bear,Larry Hannant ,Karissa Robyn Patton |
Publsiher | : Athabasca University Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2021-11-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781771992572 |
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With lively, informative contributions by both scholars and activists, Bucking Conservatism highlights the individuals and groups who challenged Alberta’s conservative status quo in the 1960s and 70s. Drawing on archival records, newspaper articles, police reports, and interviews, the contributors examine Alberta’s history through the eyes of Indigenous activists protesting discriminatory legislation and unfulfilled treaty obligations, women and lesbian and gay persons standing up to the heteropatriarchy, student activists seeking to forge a new democracy, and anti-capitalist environmentalists demanding social change. This book uncovers the lasting influence of Alberta’s noncomformists---those who recognized the need for dissent in a province defined by wealth and right-wing politics---and poses thought-provoking questions for contemporary activists.
Psychiatry and the Legacies of Eugenics
Author | : Frank W. Stahnisch,Erna Kurbegović |
Publsiher | : Athabasca University Press |
Total Pages | : 413 |
Release | : 2020-07-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781771992657 |
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From 1928 to 1972, the Alberta Sexual Sterilization Act, Canada’s lengthiest eugenic policy, shaped social discourses and medical practice in the province. Sterilization programs—particularly involuntary sterilization programs—were responding both nationally and internationally to social anxieties produced by the perceived connection between mental degeneration and heredity. Psychiatry and the Legacies of Eugenics illustrates how the emerging field of psychiatry and its concerns about inheritable conditions was heavily influenced by eugenic thought and contributed to the longevity of sterilization practices in Western Canada. Using institutional case studies, biographical accounts, and media developments from Western Canada and Europe, contributors trace the impact of eugenics on nursing practices, politics, and social attitudes, while investigating the ways in which eugenics discourses persisted unexpectedly and remained mostly unexamined in psychiatric practice. This volume further extends historical analysis into considerations of contemporary policy and human rights issues through a discussion of disability studies as well as compensation claims for victims of sterilization. In impressive detail, contributors shed new light on the medical and political influences of eugenics on psychiatry at a key moment in the field’s development. With contributions by Ashley Barlow, W. Mikkel Dack, Diana Mansell, Guel A. Russell, Celeste Tuong Vy Sharpe, Henderikus J. Stam, Douglas Wahlsten, Paul J. Weindling, Robert A. Wilson, Gregor Wolbring, and Marc Workman.
The Woman Worker 1926 1929
Author | : Margaret Helen Hobbs,Joan Sangster,Canadian Committee on Labour History |
Publsiher | : St. John's, Nfld. : Canadian Committee on Labour History |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : WISC:89073146474 |
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Comprised of articles from the original periodical, Woman worker.
Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy in Canada
Author | : Meenal Shrivastava,Lorna Stefanick |
Publsiher | : Athabasca University Press |
Total Pages | : 437 |
Release | : 2015-10-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781771990295 |
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In Democracy in Alberta: The Theory and Practice of a Quasi-Party System, published in 1953, C. B. Macpherson explored the nature of democracy in a province that was dominated by a single class of producers. At the time, Macpherson was talking about Alberta farmers, but today the province can still be seen as a one-industry economy—the 1947 discovery of oil in Leduc having inaugurated a new era. For all practical purposes, the oil-rich jurisdiction of Alberta also remains a one-party state. Not only has there been little opposition to a government that has been in power for over forty years, but Alberta ranks behind other provinces in terms of voter turnout, while also boasting some of the lowest scores on a variety of social welfare indicators. The contributors to Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy critically assess the political peculiarities of Alberta and the impact of the government’s relationship to the oil industry on the lives of the province’s most vulnerable citizens. They also examine the public policy environment and the entrenchment of neoliberal political ideology in the province. In probing the relationship between oil dependency and democracy in the context of an industrialized nation, Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy offers a crucial test of the “oil inhibits democracy” thesis that has hitherto been advanced in relation to oil-producing countries in the Global South. If reliance on oil production appears to undermine democratic participation and governance in Alberta, then what does the Alberta case suggest for the future of democracy in industrialized nations such as the United States and Australia, which are now in the process of exploiting their own substantial shale oil reserves? The environmental consequences of oil production have, for example, been the subject of much attention. Little is likely to change, however, if citizens of oil-rich countries cannot effectively intervene to influence government policy.