Author: A Balakrishnan
Publisher: Kalpaz Publications
Keywords: labourers, women, landless, rural
Number of Pages: 345
Published: 2005-01-01
List price: $44.40
ISBN-10: 8178353156
ISBN-13: 9788178353159

Author: Vadim Kukushkin
Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University Press
Keywords: sutdies, queen, ethnic, history, one, series, mcgill, canada, ukrainian, labourers, belarusan, immigration, empire, russian, peasants
Number of Pages: 283
Published: 2007-10
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0773532676
ISBN-13: 9780773532670

Canadian immigration from the Russian Empire is often portrayed as consisting entirely of non-Slavic minorities and religious refugees. Vadim Kukushkin shows that a large number of immigrants were peasants from Russia’s Ukrainian and Belarusan provinces attracted by Canadian wage - earning opportunities, unlike their neighbours from Austrian - ruled Ukraine who searched for land. Written from the migration systems perspective, "From Peasants to Labourers" places the migration of Ukrainian and Belarusan peasant-workers within the context of Old- and New-World economic structures and state