From Peasants to Labourers
Written from the migration systems perspective, From Peasants to Labourers places the migration of Ukrainian and Belarusan peasant-workers within the context of Old- and New-World economic structures and state policies. Through painstaking analysis of thousands of personal migrant files in the archives of the Russian consulates in Canada, Kukushkin fills a void in our knowledge of the geographic origins, spatial trajectories, and ethnic composition of early twentieth-century Canadian immigration from Eastern Europe. From Peasants to Labourers also provides important insights into the nature of ethnic identity formation through an exploration of the meaning of qRussiannessq in early twentieth-century Canada.Okulevich, Russkie v Kanade, 34. In 1915 the Canadian Mining Manual reported that married men in Timmins had ... See Michael Barnes, Gold in the Porcupine ( Cobalt: Highway Book Shop, 1975), 77. Cousins, A History of the Crowa#39;s Nestanbsp;...
| Title | : | From Peasants to Labourers |
| Author | : | V. Kukushkin |
| Publisher | : | McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP - 2007-01-01 |
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