Working families : age, gender, and daily survival in industrializing Montreal / Bettina Bradbury.
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TextSeries: Canadian social history seriesPublication details: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, 2007 2010)Description: 1 online resource (310 pages : illustrations, mapContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781442685475
- 1442685476
- Working class -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal -- History -- 19th century
- Families -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal -- 19th century
- Families -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal -- 19th century -- Statistics
- Women -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal -- History -- 19th century
- Montréal (Québec) -- Social conditions
- Travailleurs -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Familles -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal -- 19e siècle
- Familles -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal -- 19e siècle -- Statistiques
- Femmes -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies
- HISTORY -- Canada -- Post-Confederation (1867- )
- Families
- Social conditions
- Women
- Working class
- Québec -- Montréal
- 1800-1899
- 305.5/62097142809034
- HN110.M6 B48 2007eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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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