Review of Hired Hands: Labour and the Development of Prairie Agriculture, 1880-1930 By Cecilia Danysk

• Main Author: Cherwinski, Joe
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 1998
• Subjects: Other International and Area Studies; Canada; Homestead; The Soldier; Hoadley; Peace River
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/greatplainsquarterly/2067; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/greatplainsquarterly/article/3066/viewcontent/BR_Cherwinski.pdf

The argument is a tidy one indeed. By concentrating on the reactions of farm workers to changing labor-capital relations Danysk contends that the tens of thousands of people who came to toil in the farm fields of prairie Canada over half a century can be conveniently divided into two groups. The fir...