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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto [Ont.] :
University of Toronto Press,
2007
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| 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.


