Native migrant labour in the southern Alberta sugar-beet industry: Coercion and paternalism in the recruitment of labour

Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 65-85

  Laliberte, Ron ^a   Satzewich, Vic ^a  

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DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-618x.1999.tb01270.x     Document Type: Article

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