A01=John Lutz
Author_John Lutz
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Product details
- ISBN 9780774811408
- Weight: 1040g
- Dimensions: 203 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 2009
- Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
- Publication City/Country: CA
- Product Form: Paperback
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John Lutz traces Aboriginal people’s involvement in the new economy, and their displacement from it, from the arrival of the first Europeans to the 1970s. Drawing on an extensive array of oral histories, manuscripts, newspaper accounts, biographies, and statistical analysis, Lutz shows that Aboriginal people flocked to the workforce and prospered in the late nineteenth century. He argues that the roots of today’s widespread unemployment and “welfare dependency” date only from the 1950s, when deliberate and inadvertent policy choices – what Lutz terms the “white problem” drove Aboriginal people out of the capitalist, wage, and subsistence economies, offering them welfare as “compensation.”
John Sutton Lutz teaches in the Department of History at the University of Victoria. He is editor of Myth and Memory: Stories of Indigenous-European Contact and co-editor of Situating Race and Racisms in Space, Time, and Theory.
