A nation of immigrants : women, workers, and communities in Canadian history, 1840s-1960s

Draper, Paula Jean, 1953- (Added Author). Iacovetta, Franca, 1957- (Added Author). Ventresca, Robert. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0802074820 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0802004660 (bound)
ISBN: 9780802074829 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780802004666 (bound)
Physical Description: xiv, 513 p. ; 23 cm.
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Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c1998.

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Topic 6. Demanding Rights, Organizing for Change: Militants and Radicals -- Finnish Radicalism and Labour Activism in the Northern Ontario Woods / Ian Radforth -- Sewing Solidarity: The Eaton's Strike of 1912 / Ruth A. Frager -- Relief Strike: Immigrant Workers and the Great Depression in Crowland, Ontario, 1930-1935 / Carmela Patrias -- Topic 7. Encountering the 'Other': Society and State Responses, 1900s-1930s -- Disgrace to 'Christian Canada': Protestant Foreign Missionary Concerns about the Treatment of South Asians in Canada, 1907-1940 / Ruth Compton Brouwer -- State Repression of Labour and the Left in Canada, 1914-1920: The Impact of the First World War / Gregory S. Kealey -- 'The line must be drawn somewhere': Canada and Jewish Refugees, 1933-1939 / Irving Abella and Harold Troper -- Topic 8. Regulating Minorities in 'Hot' and 'Cold' War Contexts, 1939-1960s -- Ethnic Relations in Wartime: Nationalism and European Minorities in Alberta during the Second World War / Howard Palmer -- Making 'New Canadians': Social Workers, Women, and the Reshaping of Immigrant Families / Franca Iacovetta.