Working families : age, gender, and daily survival in industrializing Montreal /
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.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Toronto [Ont.] :
University of Toronto Press,
2007
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| Series: | Canadian social history series.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- 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.
