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Autore: | Bradbury Bettina <1949-> |
Titolo: | Working families : age, gender, and daily survival in industrializing Montreal / / Bettina Bradbury |
Pubblicazione: | Toronto, [Canada] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1993 |
©1993 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (313 p.) |
Disciplina: | 306.85/09714/2809034 |
Soggetto topico: | Working class families - Québec (Province) - Montréal - History - 19th century |
Soggetto geografico: | Montréal (Québec) Social conditions |
Montréal (Québec) Economic conditions | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Statistics. |
History | |
Persona (resp. second.): | HallPeter |
LafontaineDon | |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Working families |
ISBN: | 1-4426-9095-X |
1-4426-5572-0 | |
0-8020-0898-4 | |
1-4426-8547-6 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910781119403321 |
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