Indians at work an informal history of native Indian labour in British Columbia, 1858-1930

Title Cover Image: Indians at work

Outlines the history of native Indians as workers
Author(s): Rolf Knight
Document: Book · Paperback · CIRC [ 0 ]
Edition: 1st Edition
Published: 1978
Physical Description: 317 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Genre: History
Contents:
  1. A part of the picture
  2. Resource industries and Indian labour: general aspects
  3. The ethnographic trade and tours
  4. Cottage industries, reserve enterprises and Indian entrepreneurs
  5. Subsistence and mixed farming
  6. Commercial fishing and cannery work
  7. Seamen, sternwheel crewmen and sealers
  8. Logging, sawmilling and longshoring
  9. Prospecting, mining and railway work
  10. Packing, casual labour and other work
  11. Beyond the eastern mountains
  12. Summary
  13. Epilogue Appendix: Historical background to Indian labour
Subjects:

British Columbia, History, Indians of North America, Indians of North America British Columbia, Indians of North America British Columbia Industries, Indians of North America Employment, Indians of North America Employment British Columbia, Indiens Amérique du Nord Colombie-Britannique Travail Histoire 19e siècle, Indiens Amérique du Nord Colomb

 

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