Jean Burnet: 2 books
The Bunkhouse Man
Life and Labour in the Northern Work Camps
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1972
Journalists and poets, economists and political historians, have told the story of Canada’s railways, but their accounts pay little attention to the workers who built them. The Bunkhouse Man is the only study devoted to these men and their lives in construction camps; a pioneering work in sociology,...
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A Study of Rural Social Organization in Alberta
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1951
In this study of the problems of social organization in a rural community of Alberta, a drought-afflicted wheat-growing area centring round the town of Hanna is described as it appeared to the sociologist in 1946.
Dr Burnet examines geographical and economic conditions in Hanna, and shows how...