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.
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Table of Contents
- Table des matières 288
- Introduction 6
- 1 Le royaume du Saguenay 26
- 2 La construction de la ville 45
- 3 La constitution de la main-d'œuvre, 1925–1940 66
- 4 Le travail en usine 96
- 5 La population de la ville 126
- 6 Les travailleurs et leurs familles 158
- 7 La naissance du syndicalisme 187
- 8 La grève de 1941 209
- Conclusion 238
- Annexe 1 Analyses statistiques 244
- Annexe 2 Jumelage des données démographiques 253
- Bibliographie 256
- Liste des tableaux 272
- Liste des figures 276
- Remerciements 278
- Index 280
- A 280
- B 281
- C 281
- D 282
- E 282
- F 282
- G 282
- H 283
- I 283
- J 283
- K 283
- L 283
- M 283
- N 284
- O 284
- P 284
- Q 284
- R 284
- S 284
- T 285
- U 286
- V 286
- W 286
- Z 286
