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Dalhousie Law Journal

1975

Farm labour

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The Agricultural Labourer In Canada: A Legal Point Of View, Kathryn Neilson, Innis Christie Sep 1975

The Agricultural Labourer In Canada: A Legal Point Of View, Kathryn Neilson, Innis Christie

Dalhousie Law Journal

The public has recently been made aware of special difficulties affecting farm labour. In August, 1973 the Report of a Federal Department of Agriculture team entitled "The Seasonal Farm Labour Situation in Southwestern Ontario" ' emphasized the deplorable living and working conditions, on some farms at least, of the seasonal labourers hired to harvest field crops in southwestern Ontario. Heavy media coverage erupted almost immediately, and there was renewed coverage in the autumn of 1974.2 Much less sensationally, through the spring and summer of 1974, the media gave coverage to special efforts by the government at both the Federal and …


The Agricultural Labourer In Canada: A Legal Point Of View, Kathryn Neilson, Innis Christie Sep 1975

The Agricultural Labourer In Canada: A Legal Point Of View, Kathryn Neilson, Innis Christie

Dalhousie Law Journal

The public has recently been made aware of special difficulties affecting farm labour. In August, 1973 the Report of a Federal Department of Agriculture team entitled "The Seasonal Farm Labour Situation in Southwestern Ontario" ' emphasized the deplorable living and working conditions, on some farms at least, of the seasonal labourers hired to harvest field crops in southwestern Ontario. Heavy media coverage erupted almost immediately, and there was renewed coverage in the autumn of 1974.2 Much less sensationally, through the spring and summer of 1974, the media gave coverage to special efforts by the government at both the Federal and …