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Arvida au Saguenay : naissance d'une ville industrielle / Jose E. Igartua.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Igartua, Jose Eduardo, 1946-
- Series:
- Studies on the history of Quebec.
- Etudes d'histoire du Quebec = Studies on the history of Quebec
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Working class--Quebec (Province)--Saguenay--History.
- Working class.
- Arvida (Saguenay, Québec)--Economic conditions.
- Arvida (Saguenay, Québec).
- Physical Description:
- 273 p. : ill., cartes, portr. ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1996.
- Language Note:
- French
- Summary:
- The town of Arvida provides a field on which we can observe in microcosm the birth of an industrial town and the development of the population's identity as a community. Using a wealth of quantitative and qualitative data, José Igartua examines what type of people chose to come, who decided to stay, how they lived, and how the demographic traits of the region shifted. He argues that even though a significant proportion of the population came from outside the region Arvida gradually acquired the character of a Saguenay town, where family, the Catholic Church, and French-Canadian culture were dominant. Igartua pays particular attention to the local labour movement, which culminated in the famous wildcat strike of 1941, revealing that the fight for collective action was the turning point in the development of a community consciousness.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Table des matières
- Introduction
- Le royaume du Saguenay
- La construction de la ville
- La constitution de la main-d'œuvre, 1025-1040
- Le travail en usine
- La population de la ville
- Les travailleurs et leurs familles
- La naissance du syndicalisme
- La grève de 1941
- Conclusion
- Analyses statistiques
- Jumelage des données démographiques
- Bibliographie
- Liste des tableaux
- Liste des figures
- Remerciements
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-258) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-85376-7
- 9786612853760
- 0-7735-6583-3
- OCLC:
- 732600790
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