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Strikwerda, Eric

Dr. Eric Strikwerda

(Contract Instructor)

PhD York University
MA University of Saskatchewan
BA Hons. University of Alberta

337-F Old Arts Building
University of Alberta
Edmonton AB T6G 2H4
Tel. (780) 448-1396

estrikwe@ualberta.ca
erics@athabascau.ca

Current Courses
  • HIST 111 – World History, 1400-1800
  • HIST 260 – Pre-Confederation Canada
  • HIST 360 – Canadians at Work, Home, and Play: A Post-Confederation Social History
Publications

E. Strikwerda, The Wages of Relief: The City and the Depression on the Canadian Prairies, 1929-1939 (UBC Press, forthcoming 2011)

E. Strikwerda, Alberta Labour Between the Wars, in Alberta Labour History Institute, A History of Alberta Labour, Alvin Finkel, ed. Athabasca University Press, Athabasca, 2012

Eric Strikwerda, “‘Married men should, I feel, be treated differently’: Work, Relief, and Unemployed Men on the Urban Canadian Prairies, 1929-1932,” Left History 12/1 (2007): 30-51

Eric Strikwerda, “From Short-Term Emergency to Long-Term Crisis: Unemployment Relief Projects in Saskatoon, 1929-1932,” Prairie Forum, 26-2, Autumn 2001, pp. 169-186