Indigenous women, work, and history, 1940-1980 / Mary Jane Logan McCallum.

Indigenous women, work, and history, 1940-1980 / Mary Jane Logan McCallum.

Based on a range of sources including the records of the Departments of Indian Affairs and National Health and Welfare, interviews. print, and media, McCallum shows how state-run education and placement programs were part of Canada's larger vision of assimilation and extinguishment of treaty ob...

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Main Author: McCallum, Mary Jane Logan, 1974- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Winnipeg : University of Manitoba Press, [2014]
Series:Critical studies in native history ; 16.
Subjects:
Indian women > Canada > Economic conditions > 20th century.
Indian women > Canada > Social conditions > 20th century.
Indian women > Employment > Canada > History > 20th century.
Indian women > Canada > History > 20th century.
Indian women > Employment > Canada > History > 20th century > Case studies.
Indigenous women > Canada > Economic conditions > 20th century.
Indigenous women > Canada > Social conditions > 20th century.
Indigenous women > Employment > Canada > History > 20th century.
Indigenous women > Employment > Canada > History > 20th century > Case studies.
Indigenous women > Canada > History > 20th century.
Canada > Economic conditions > 1945-
Genre/Form:Electronic books.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Sweeping the Nation: Indigenous women and domestic labour in mid-twentieth-century Canada
  • Permanent solution: the placement and relocation program, hairdressers, and beauty culture
  • Early labour history of community health representatives, 1960-1970
  • Gaining recognition: labour as activism among Indigenous nurses
  • Wages of whiteness and the indigenous historian.

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