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The Wages of Relief Cities and the Unemployed in Prairie Canada, 1929–39

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Setting municipal relief administrations of the 1930s within a wider literature on welfare and urban poor relief, Strikwerda highlights the legacy on which relief policymakers relied in determining policy directions, as well as the experiences of the individuals and families who depended on relief for their survival. Focusing on three prairie cities—Edmonton, Saskatoon, and Winnipeg—Strikwerda argues that municipal officials used their power to set policy to address what they perceived to be the most serious threats to the social order stemming from the economic crisis. By analyzing the differing ways in which local relief programs treated married and single men, he also explores important gendered dynamics at work in the response of city administrators to the social and economic upheaval of the Depression. Probing the mindset of local elites struggling in extraordinary circumstances, The Wages of Relief describes the enduring impact of the policy changes made in the 1930s in the direction of a broad, national approach to unemployment—an approach that ushered in Canada’s modern welfare system.

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Series Title

Working Canadians: Books from the CCLH

Call Number

333 pages

Publisher

: ., 2013

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Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

978-1-927356-05-0

Classification

333 pages

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text

Media Type

computer

Carrier Type

online resource

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Subject(s)

History, Political History, Western History
Canadian History, Canadian Studies,

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Statement of Responsibility

Eric Strikwerda

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Arin

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