Copyright © 2012 Alvin Finkel

Published by AU Press, Athabasca University
1200, 10011 – 109 Street, Edmonton, AB, T5J 3S6

ISBN 978-1-926836-58-4 (print)

ISBN 978-1-926836-59-1 (PDF)

ISBN 978-1-926836-60-7 (epub)

A volume in Working Canadians: Books from the CCLH ISSN 1925-1831 (print) 1925-184x (digital)

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Working people in Alberta : a history/edited by Alvin Finkel.

(Working Canadians, books from the CCLH
ISSN 1925-1831) Issued also in electronic formats.

ISBN 978-1-926836-58-4

1. Labor—Alberta—History.

2. Working class—Alberta—History.

3. Alberta—Economic conditions.

4. Alberta—Economic policy.

I. Finkel, Alvin, 1949–

II. Series: Working Canadians (Edmonton, Alta.)

HD8109.A42W67 2011        331.097123        C2011-905733-6

Cover and interior design by Natalie Olsen, Kisscut Design. Printed and bound in Canada by Marquis Book Printers.

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