This book is about the problems faced by able-bodied men who are forced to live off public welfare, or "on the dole." Based on the author's daily interactions with a hundred unemployed men in one Newfoundland village, this sensitive probe takes on a narrative form centered on one man and his family, and his struggle to maintain their self-esteem in the community. For, to be excused for being unemployed, a man must constantly show his desire to work.

Now, Whose Fault Is That?: The Struggle for Self-Esteem in the Face of Chronic Unemployment (Social and Economic Studies)

Business & Money

Wadel, Cato

Economics

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In February, 1948, a group of fish and blueberry processors formed the exclusively female, Ladies' Cold Storage Workers Union at Job Brothers fish plant in St. John's, Newfoundland. Unusual for the time, this organization was founded in the context of structural and social change in the Newfoundland fishery that altered the social relations of paid and unpaid work for women fish plant labourers. Cullum carefully explores this specific labour process and provides an open reading of the workers' narratives; a study of how the women of Job Brothers recounted stories of their work and domestic lives, and thus fashioned shifting identities as gendered, classed, and racialized subjects.

Narratives at Work: Women, Men, Unionization, and the Fashioning of Identities (Social and Economic Studies)

Cullum, Linda K

Dire Straits: The Dilemmas of a Fishery: The Case of Digby Neck and the Islands (Social and Economic Studies)

Davis, Anthony

Living in a Material World: Canadian and American Approaches to Material Culture (Social and Economic Papers)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Midwives in Passage: The Modernisation of Maternity Care (Social and Economic Studies)

Benoit, Cecilia

Every year more men are maimed and killed while deep-sea fishing than in any other industry in Canada. Yet, until recently, these casualties were largely ignored by government and labour. In interviews with fishers and their families, scallopers, engineers, fish plant owners, and others whose livelihoods are hostage to the fishery, this book examines the hazardous and physically demanding occupation of deep-sea fishing. A complex and fascinating picture emerges: the sea is inherently dangerous and good fishers are, by definition, preoccupied with safety. As both owners and skippers point out, it is the 'best' seamen (the most safety-conscious) who make the most money. Several interviewees describe the dangers of novice fishers, or 'greenhorns', who "get in such queer wrong places."

Voices from Offshore: Narratives of Risk and Danger in the Nova Scotian Deep-Sea Fishery (Social and Economic Studies)

Binkley, Marian

Labour and Working Class History in Atlantic... Publisher: Institute of Social and Economic Research, St. John's Newfoundland Publication Date: 1995

Labour and Working Class History in Atlantic Canada: A Reader (Social and Economic Papers)

Review\nWell written, and frequently fascinating. As a detailed ethnography of an individual people's experiences, it makes an important contribution to the broader corpus of North American Aboriginal studies. It also provides a useful corrective for those otherwise convinced of Canada's essential goodness. - Colin Samson, Community, Environment and Population - Community, Environment and Population\nThis book is about the social and political processes involved in the extinguishment of a unique way of life of the Innu people of Nitassinan, the Labrador-Quebec peninsula. In the 1950s and 60s, the Innu were prompted by Canadian authorities to abandon permanent nomadic hunting, the way of life that had made them independent and self-reliant occupants of the Subarctic. These people, who had occupied a territory the size of France, and for whom the land, waterways and animals provided physical, moral and spiritual sustenance, were settled in government-built villages in Northern Quebec and Labrador. Sustained efforts to impose Euro-Canadian authority upon the Innu have had the effect of seriously eroding not only a distinct way of life, but a unique view of the self, society, and the cosmos. Such efforts have also resulted in rates of suicide, alcoholism, and other forms of self-destructive abuse that are among the highest in the world. 
By observing interactions between the Innu and the Euro-Canadian institutions imposed upon them, Samson examines how the attempt to destroy the Innu way of life has actually operated. The book looks in detail at Innu relations with the Canadian state, developers, explorers, missionaries, educators, health-care professionals, and the justice system.

A Way of Life That Does Not Exist: Canada and the Extinguishment of the Innu (Social and Economic Studies)

History

Samson, Colin

Americas

A Way of Life That Does Not Exist: Canada and the Extinguishment of the Innu

Colin Samson

Power and Restructuring: Canada's Coastal Society and Environment (Social and Economic Papers)

Rosemary Ommer

Industries

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