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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCallum, Mary Jane Logan, author.

Series:

Critical studies in native history ; 16.

Critical Studies in Native History ; 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indian women--Canada--History--Economic conditions--20th century.

Indian women.

Indian women--Canada--History--Social conditions--20th century.

Indian women--Employment--Canada--History--20th century.

Canada--Economic conditions--1945-.

Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Place of Publication:

Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Sweeping the Nation: Indigenous women and domestic labour in mid-twentieth-century Canada

Permanent solution: the placement and relocation program, hairdresses, 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780887554308

088755430X

OCLC:

895193386