It takes the average reader 3 hours and 40 minutes to read The Wages of Relief by Eric Strikwerda
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
In the early part of the Dirty Thirties, the Canadian prairie city was a relatively safe haven. Having faced recession before the Great War and then again in the early 1920s, municipalities already had relief apparatuses in place to deal with poverty and unemployment. Until 1933, responsibilty for the care of the urban poor remained with local governments, but when the farms failed that year, and the Depression deepened, western Canadian cities suffered tremendously. Recognizing the severity of the crisis, the national government intervened. Evolving federal programs and policies took over...
The Wages of Relief by Eric Strikwerda is 220 pages long, and a total of 55,000 words.
This makes it 74% the length of the average book. It also has 67% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours to read The Wages of Relief aloud.
The Wages of Relief is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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