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Detre, Laura A. – Great Plains Quarterly, 2004
One of the major challenges that Canadian government officials felt they faced at the end of the nineteenth century was the development of the prairie West. By this time there were large urban centers in eastern Canada, but many Canadians worried that they had not truly ensured the future existence of their country. To do this the government…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Periodicals, Immigrants, Agricultural Laborers
Martens, Margaret Hosmer, Ed.; Mitter, Swasti, Ed. – 1994
This book contains a comparative survey of efforts to organize female workers in trade unions in both developing and industrialized nations and 19 case studies of efforts to organize female workers in selected occupations. The following papers are included: "A Comparative Survey" (Swasti Mitter); "The Union of Women Domestic…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agricultural Laborers, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis