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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781119403321

Autore

Bradbury Bettina <1949->

Titolo

Working families : age, gender, and daily survival in industrializing Montreal / / Bettina Bradbury

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Canada] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1993

©1993

ISBN

1-4426-9095-X

1-4426-5572-0

0-8020-0898-4

1-4426-8547-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 p.)

Collana

Canadian Social History Series

Disciplina

306.85/09714/2809034

Soggetti

Working class families - Québec (Province) - Montréal - History - 19th century

Statistics.

History

Montréal (Québec) Social conditions

Montréal (Québec) Economic conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Working Families explores the complex variety of responses of working-class families to their new lives within industrial capitalist society, and offers new ways of looking at the industrial revolution in Canada.