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Hired Hands : Labour and the Development of Prairie Agriculture, 1880-1930 /

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,...

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Autor principal: Danysk, Cecilia (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Labour-capital relations in Prairie agriculture
  • Beginnings, 1870s-1900
  • Expansion, 1900-1918
  • Consolidation, 1918-1930
  • Appendix.