Author: Eric Strikwerda

Eric Strikwerda teaches Canadian History at Athabasca University. His latest book is The Wages of Relief: Cities and the Unemployed in Prairie Canada, 1929–39.

COVID-19: A View from the Great Depression of the 1930s

The Great Depression. It rests in our collective consciousness as a time when unemployment was rampant, when soup kitchen and bread lines were long, when misery was widespread, when dust … Keep reading »

Economy • June 21, 2020 • Eric Strikwerda and Ingo Schmidt