Le projet d'histoire du travail au Nouveau-Brunswick et la communauté du Madawaska: comment construire des partenariats durables.

The ARUC Work History Project in New-Brunswick (LHTNB) aims to show that the labour experience is an important and essential part of New Brunswick's provincial heritage. Through partnerships with different community organizations, the research team organized public activities and participated in collaboration projects in many regions of the province. The aim of this essay is two-fold: first the author evaluates the nature and the efficiency of the partnerships developed in Madawaska, an Acadian region of New Brunswick. Did the research team succeed in developing genuine partnerships in Madawaska? Was there a real sense of "sharing authority" between the research team and its community partners in that region? What has been public's role since the project began? Second, the author analyzes the effect of public activities and collaboration projects on the Madawaska community and attempts to draw conclusions from what the research team has learned from these experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]