A Nation of Immigrants : : Women, Workers, and Communities in Canadian History, 1840s-1960s / / ed. by Franca Iacovetta, Paula Draper, Robert Ventresca.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Abella, Irving,; Brouwer, Ruth Compton,; Chan, Anthony B.,; Cottrell, Michael,; Darlington, James W.,; Draper, Paula J.,; Forestell, Nancy M.,; Frager, Ruth A.,; Harney, Robert F.,; Iacovetta, Franca,; Karlinsky, Janice B.,; Kealey, Gregory S.,; Law, Howard,; Lindstrom, Varpu,; Palmer, Howard,; Patrias, Carmela,; Radforth, Ian,; See, Scott W.,; Silverman, Jason H.,; Troper, Harold,; Wayne, Michael,; Woywitka, Anne B.,
• HerausgeberIn: Draper, Paula,; Iacovetta, Franca,; Ventresca, Robert,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (512 p.)

This collection brings together a wide array of writings on Canadian immigrant history, including many highly regarded, influential essays. Though most of the chapters have been previously published, the editors have also commissioned original contributions on understudied topics in the field. The readings highlight the social history of immigrants, their pre-migration traditions as well as migration strategies and Canadian experiences, their work and family worlds, and their political, cultural, and community lives. They explore the public display of ethno-religious rituals, race riots, and union protests; the quasi-private worlds of all-male boarding-houses and of female domestics toiling in isolated workplaces; and the intrusive power that government and even well-intentioned social reformers have wielded over immigrants deemed dangerous or otherwise in need of supervision.Organized partly chronologically and largely by theme, the topical sections will offer students a glimpse into Canada's complex immigrant past. In order to facilitate classroom discussion, each section contains an introduction that contextualizes the readings and raises some questions for debate. A Nation of Immigrants will be useful both in specialized courses in Canadian immigration history and in courses on broader themes in Canadian history.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- TOPIC ONE. The Irish in Nineteenth-Century Canada: Class, Culture, and Conflict -- Introduction -- The Orange Order and Social Violence in Mid-Nineteenth Century Saint John -- St. Patrick's Day Parades in Nineteenth- Century Toronto: A Study of Immigrant Adjustment and Elite Control -- TOPIC TWO. American Blacks in Nineteenth-Century Ontario: Challenging the Stereotypes -- Introduction -- The Black Population of Canada West on the Eve of the American Civil War: A Reassessment Based on the Manuscript Census of 1861 -- 'Self-Reliance Is the True Road to Independence7: Ideology and the Ex-Slaves in Buxton and Chatham -- Mary Ann Shadd and the Search for Equality -- TOPIC THREE. Settling the Canadian West: The 'Exotic' Continentals -- Introduction -- A Roumanian Pioneer -- The Ukrainian Impress on the Canadian West -- TOPIC FOUR. 'Women's Work': Paid Labour, Comrnunity-Building, and Protest -- Introduction -- 'I Won't Be a Slave!7: Finnish Domestics in Canada, 1911-1930 -- Abraham's Daughters: Women, Charity, and Power in the Canadian Jewish Community -- TOPIC FIVE. Men without Women: 'Bachelor7 Workers and Gendered Identities -- Introduction -- Men without Women: Italian Migrants in Canada, 1885-1930 -- Bachelor Workers -- Bachelors, Boarding-Houses, and Blind Pigs: Gender Construction in a Multi-Ethnic Mining Camp, 1909-1920 -- TOPIC SIX. Demanding Rights, Organizing for Change: Militants and Radicals -- Introduction -- Finnish Radicalism and Labour Activism in the Northern Ontario Woods -- Sewing Solidarity: The Eaton's Strike of 1912 -- Relief Strike: Immigrant Workers and the Great Depression in Crowland, Ontario, 1930-1935 -- TOPIC SEVEN Encountering the 'Other7: Society and State Responses, 19.00s-1930s -- Introduction -- A Disgrace to 'Christian Canada": Protestant Foreign Missionary Concerns about the Treatment of South Asians in Canada, 1907-1940 -- State Repression of Labour and the Left in Canada, 1914-1920: The Impact of the First World War -- The line must be drawn somewhere': Canada and Jewish Refugees, 1933-1939 -- TOPIC EIGHT. Regulating Minorities in 'Hot7 and 'Cold' War Contexts, 1939-1960s -- Introduction -- Ethnic Relations in Wartime: Nationalism and European Minorities in Alberta during the Second World War -- Making 'New Canadians': Social Workers, Women, and the Reshaping of Immigrant Families