Arvida Au Saguenay by Jos Igartua
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, Jose 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.
"An excellent portrait of the evolution of Arvida in the first twenty years of existenceThis is one of the few investigations of its type to be produced in Quebec in recent years on the history of the working class. Arvida au Saguenay makes an important and original contribution to social history." [translation] Fernand Harvey, INRS -- Culture et Societe, Quebec. "Arvida au Saguenay fills a significant gap in Quebec historiography. Igartua's analysis of the work force, the union movement, and the 1941 strike adds an important new dimension to Canadian labour and working-class history." Jack Little, Department of History, Simon Fraser University.
José E. Igartua is a retired professor of history at the Université du Québec à Montréal.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780773513785 |
| ISBN 10 | 0773513787 |
| Title | Arvida Au Saguenay |
| Author | Jos Igartua |
| Series | Studies On The History Of Quebec Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | McGill-Queen's University Press |
| Year published | 1996-05-09 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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