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Author Igartua, José E., 1946- author.

Title Arvida au Saguenay : naissance d'une ville industrielle / José E. Igartua
Published Montréal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, [1996]

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Description 1 online resource (273 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Studies on the history of Quebec = Études d'histoire du Québec, 1183-4390
Studies on the history of Quebec.
Contents Table des matiÃ?res -- Introduction -- 1 Le royaume du Saguenay -- 2 La construction de la ville -- 3 La constitution de la main-d'Å?uvre, 1925â€?1940 -- 4 Le travail en usine -- 5 La population de la ville -- 6 Les travailleurs et leurs familles -- 7 La naissance du syndicalisme -- 8 La grÃ?ve de 1941 -- Conclusion -- Annexe 1 Analyses statistiques -- Annexe 2 Jumelage des données démographiques -- Bibliographie -- Liste des tableaux -- Liste des figures -- Remerciements -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J
Kl -- m -- n -- o -- p -- q -- r -- s -- t -- u -- v -- w -- z
Summary 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, José 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-258) and index
Notes French
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Subject Working class -- Québec (Province) -- Saguenay -- History
HISTORY -- Canada -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Urban & Regional.
Working class
SUBJECT Jonquière (Saguenay, Québec) -- History
Arvida (Saguenay, Québec) -- History
Subject Québec -- Arvida (Saguenay)
Québec -- Saguenay
Québec -- Saguenay -- Jonquiere
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773565838
0773565833
1282853767
9781282853768
9786612853760
661285376X