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

• Главный автор: Eric Strikwerda (auth)
• Формат: Электронный ресурс Глава книги
• Язык: английский
• Опубликовано: Athabasca University Press 2013
• Серии: Working Canadians: Books from the CCLH
• Предметы: government; cities; urban; Depression
• Online-ссылка: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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...