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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bradbury, Bettina, 1949-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, 2007
Colección:Canadian social history series.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.