Working Families takes the reader onto the streets of Montreal and into the homes of its working-class families during the years that it became a major, industrial city. Between the 1860s and 1890s the expansion of wage labour changed the bases of family survival. It offered new possibilities and created new points of tension within the families of the emerging working class. Here we meet the men, youth, and children who worked for wages. We see the women who stayed home with their young, cooked and sewed, planted gardens and tended animals, stretching their often meagre family wages into goods and services for survival. We also see the ingenuity and agony of women whose husbands lost their jobs, fell ill, drank up their wages, deserted their families, or died.
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.
By:
Bettina Bradbury Imprint: University of Toronto Press Country of Publication: Canada Edition: annotated edition Dimensions:
Height: 217mm,
Width: 140mm,
Spine: 20mm
Weight: 460g ISBN:9780802086891 ISBN 10: 0802086896 Series:Canadian Social History Series Pages: 310 Publication Date:26 June 2007 Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
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A / AS level
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Further / Higher Education
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
Bettina Bradbury is an associate professor of History and Women's Studies at York University.
