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Influenza 1918: Disease, Death, and Struggle in Winnipeg (Studies in Gender and History)

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The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 killed as many as fifty million people all over the world and affected the vast majority of Canadians. Yet the pandemic, which came and left in one season, never to recur in any significant way, has remained difficult to interpret. What did it mean to live through and beyond this brief, terrible episode, and what were its long-term effects?

Influenza 1918 uses Winnipeg as a case study to show how disease articulated abd helped to re-define boundaries of social difference. Esyllt W. Jones examines the have an effect on of the pandemic in this fragmented community, including its role in the eruption of the largest labour confrontation in Canadian history, the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919. Arguing that labour historians have in large part ignored the have an effect on of infectious disease upon the working class, Jones draws on quite a lot of primary sources including mothers’ allowance and orphanage case files with a purpose to trace the pandemic’s have an effect on on the circle of relatives, the public health infrastructure, and other social institutions. This study brings into center of attention the interrelationships between epidemic disease and working class, gender, labour, and ethnic history in Canada.

Influenza 1918 concludes that social conflict isn’t an inevitable outcome of epidemics, but somewhat of inequality and public failure to fully engage all members of the community in the fight against disease.

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