Eric Strikwerda: 1 book
The Wages of Relief
Cities and the Unemployed in Prairie Canada, 1929–39
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
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...
