‘Forced to Work ‘Too Hard’: A Case Study of Forced Child Labour and Slavery in Manitoba’s Indian Residential Schools
Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: This brief article has highlighted the longstanding history and persistence of unfree student labour that was both foundational and integral to the IRS system. Rooted in the history of the schools, as of 1926 and 1930, these practices met the legal thresholds of slavery and forced labour established in international law. It is important that we do not lose sight of the recentness of this history and its enduring legacies. To this end, this case study of Manitoba Residential Schools contributes to addressing the incomplete record of the past, inserting this important facet of unfree, forced child and slave labour into broader understandings of the Residential School experience and the injustices experienced by Indigenous children at the hands of the churches that operated them and the Canadian government that oversaw them under the guise of educational training.
Authors: Evans, Karlee Sapoznik, Lindsay, Anne, Sinclair, Niigaanwewidam James
Language: English
Subfield: Health
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W7056640783
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