Indigenous women, work, and history, 1940-1980

McCallum, Mary Jane Logan 1974- (author.).

Summary: 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 obligations. Conversely, she also shows how Indigenous women link these same programs to their social and cultural responsibilities of community building and state resistance.

Record details

ISBN: 9780887557385
ISBN: 0887557384
ISBN: 9780887554308
ISBN: 088755430X
ISBN: 9780887554322
ISBN: 0887554326
Physical Description: print
remote
regular print
xiv, 320 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press, [2014]
Copyright: ©2014

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-312) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Additional Physical Form available Note:	Issued also in electronic formats.
Language Note:	Text in English.