Training Women and First Nations for Highway Construction Work: The Experience of Building the Vancouver Island Highway (2 of 2).

Author: 
SFU Women's Studies Department
SFU Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies
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Date created: 
2001-04-09
Keywords: 
Women and trades
Gender and trades
Description: 
Marjorie Griffin Cohen spoke on the successful recruitment of female and First Nations for the Vancouver Island Highway Project. She examines the culture of construction, which is generally a struggle for women and First Nations people to integrate into. As well, the experience of the workers and the political action that made it all happen were also addressed.
Language: 
English
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Other
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