Working Families : : Age, Gender, and Daily Survival in Industrializing Montreal / / Bettina Bradbury.
Working Families takes the reader onto the streets of Montreal and into the homes of its working-class families during the years that it became a major, industrial city. Between the 1860s and 1890s the expansion of wage labour changed the bases of family survival. It offered new possibilities and cr...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017] ©2003 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Canadian Social History Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 The Economic, Geographic, and Social Context of Montreal Working-Class Life
- 2 Marriage, Families, and Households
- 3 Men's Wages and the Cost of Living
- 4 Age, Gender, and the Roles of Children
- 5 Managing and Stretching Wages: The Work of Wives
- 6 Managing without a Spouse: Women's Inequality Laid Bare
- Conclusion
- Tables
- Notes
- Index