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- Title
Native Migrant Labour in the Southern Alberta Sugar-beet Industry: Coercion and Paternalism in the Recruitment of Labour(*).
- Authors
Laliberte, Ron; Satzewich, Vic
- Abstract
Analyzes the employment of North American Indian workers in Alberta, Canada during the 1950s and 1960s. Overview of the sugar-beet industry in southern Alberta; Discussion of Canadian employment policies and agencies, including manpower committees and the Indian Affairs Branch of the national government; Description of migrant labor policies as coercive and paternalistic; Details of public welfare programs for North American Indian workers.
- Subjects
ALBERTA; CANADA; CANADIAN history, 1945-; INDIGENOUS peoples -- Employment; SUGAR beet industry; FIRST Nations of Canada; LABOR policy; EMPLOYMENT policy; MIGRANT labor; PUBLIC welfare; INDUSTRIAL sociology; GOVERNMENT policy
- Publication
Canadian Review of Sociology & Anthropology, 1999, Vol 36, Issue 1, p65
- ISSN
0008-4948
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1755-618x.1999.tb01270.x