Hobohemia and the Crucifixion Machine: Rival Images of a New World in 1930s Vancouver - Couverture souple

McCallum, Todd

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1926836286 ISBN 13 : 9781926836287

Editeur : AU Press, 2015

Synopsis

In the early years of the Great Depression, thousands of unemployed homeless transients settled into Vancouver's "hobo jungle." The jungle operated as a distinct community, in which goods were exchanged and shared directly, without benefit of currency. But as the transients moved from the jungles to the city, they made innumerable demands on Vancouver's Relief Department, consuming financial resources at a rate that threatened the city with bankruptcy. McCallum argues that, threatened by this "ungovernable society," Vancouver's Relief Department employed Fordist management methods that ultimately stripped the transients of their individuality. Hobohemia and the Crucifixion Machine explores the connections between the history of transiency and that of Fordism, offering a new interpretation of the economic and political crises that wracked Canada in the early years of the Great Depression.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Todd McCallum is an assistant professor in theDepartment of History at Dalhousie University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: AU Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1926836286
• ISBN 13: 9781926836287
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 324
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• Personne responsable: non disponible