EPISODE · Apr 4, 2022 · 5 MIN
Porter Primers: Side hustles
from The Secret Life of Canada
Sleeping car porters were notoriously underpaid and had to fight for tips, condemning most to poverty. Historian Dr. Dorothy Williams describes how porters turned to side hustles and other entrepreneurial pursuits to survive, and to regain the agency they lost as precarious railway employees.
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