Your search
Results 11 resources
-
The article reviews the book, "Rebellious Families: Household Strategies and Collective Action in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries," edited by Jan Kok.
-
The article reviews the book, "Unwilling Idlers: The Urban Unemployed and Their Families in Late Victorian Canada," by Peter Baskerville and Eric W. Sager.
-
The article reviews the book, "How the Other Half Ate: A History of Working Class Meals at the Turn of the Century," by Katherine Leonard Turner.
-
To understand the family economy of the working class in the period of early industrial capitalism it is necessary to go beyond a simple consideration of the sufficiency of wages, to put aside the equation of work with wage labour and to examine other ways in which survival could be enhanced. This paper begins an examination of non-wage-based survival strategies. It focuses on animal raising, gardening, the taking in of boarders and house sharing in mid- to late-nineteenth-century Montreal. These particular survival strategies can be ascertained to some extent from people's responses to the census taker. Analysis of their responses as found in the manuscript schedules of 1861 and 1871 constitutes the core of the paper. Professionals and proprietors were most likely to keep cows, the semi- and unskilled pigs. Pigs were outlawed in this period, while cows remained legal. Gardening, too, was largely eliminated on the narrow, densely built lots of the working class. The outlawing of pigs represents one of a complex of changes that, over the length of a generation, severely curtailed the proletariat's access to means of supplementing their wages and altered the contributions a wife and children could make to the family economy.
-
This article reviews the book, "Never Done: A History of American Housework," by Susan Strasser.
-
The article reviews the book, "L'histoire des femmes au Québec depuis quatre siècles," by Le Collectif Cleo.
-
The article reviews the book, "Urban Domestic Servants in 19th-Century Canada/Les Domestiques En Milieu Urbain Canadien au XIXe Siècle," by Claudette Lacelle.
-
This paper seeks to examine the extent to which the writing of the history of both women and of the Canadian working class has converged over the last ten years, to suggest other ways in which integration of the two could be sought, and also to suggest some basic conflicts between the paradigms of each which point to areas where integration seems unlikely. It argues that if the goal of writing a history of the totality of the working class is a shared one, areas of intersection between the two fields must be consciously sought out. New ways of integrating the history of women and of the working class must be sought. For a start, this requires a reconceptualization of the way we define the working class and work, examination of the processes of class reproduction, and acknowledgement of the importance of examining how gender definitions are transmitted, shaped and reshaped.
-
This article reviews the book, "Women, Work and Family," by Louise A. Tilly and Joan W. Scott.
-
The article reviews the book, "Labour and Love: Women's Experience of Home and Family, 1850-1940," edited by Jane Lewis.
-
Pays tribute to the life and work of social historian Marta Danylewycz (reprint of the letter published in La Presse, Friday, March 29, 1985, that was signed by Denyse Baillargeon, Bettina Bradbury, Joanne Burgess, and eight others); industrial relations' professor Léo Roback, by Bernard Brody; and US labour historian Herbert G. Gutman, by John T. O'Brien (1st article), and Leon Fink and Susan Levine (2nd article). Also includes a list of Gutman's major publications. A photo accompanies each obituary.
Explore
Resource type
Publication year
-
Between 1900 and 1999
(8)
- Between 1980 and 1989 (7)
-
Between 1990 and 1999
(1)
- 1995 (1)
-
Between 2000 and 2025
(3)
- Between 2000 and 2009 (2)
-
Between 2010 and 2019
(1)
- 2015 (1)