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Darwin's moving / Taylor Lambert.

by Lambert, Taylor, 1985-

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NeWest Press, 2017.

Storage and moving trade -- Alberta -- Calgary.

Blue collar workers -- Alberta -- Calgary.

Calgary (Alta.) -- Social conditions -- 21st century.

Calgary (Alta.) -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.

9781988732039 (pbk.)

145 p. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduces readers to the colourful characters who populate the furniture moving trade, a male-dominated world of labour with relatively high pay and no need for education of any sort. Movers have a unique window into the private spaces of the city as they perform their difficult and delicate job inside all manner of homes, from government-subsidized housing developments to multi-million dollar McMansions. Taylor Lambert intriguingly explores class and work in a city that would rather focus on the wealth and prosperity brought to it by the oil and gas industry. Darwin's Moving shows us the Other Calgary, a world populated by transient men and women struggling to survive in a boomtown's shadow. Calgary Journalist Taylor Lambert is the author of Leaving Moose Jaw and Rising: Stories of the 2013 Alberta Flood. To pay for tuition and later to offset his freelance writing, Taylor worked moving furniture, which led to the idea to write this book.

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