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

In the early part of the Dirty Thirties, the Canadian prairie city was a relatively safe haven. Having faced recession before the Great War and then again in the early 1920s, municipalities already had relief apparatuses in place to deal with poverty and unemployment. Until 1933, responsibilty for t...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Athabasca University Press 2013
Series:Working Canadians: Books from the CCLH
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