Working Families

Age, Gender, and Daily Survival in Industrializing Montreal

By: Bettina Bradbury

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Paperback | 17 March 2007

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"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.

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Non-Fiction Society & Culture Social Groups Social Classes Gender Studies Gender Studies: Women and Girls Sociology & Anthropology Sociology Sociology & Family & Relationships History Specific Events & Topics in History Social & Cultural History

Sociology & Work & Labour Regional & National History History of the Americas Earliest Times to Present Day Modern History from 1700 to 1900 Ethnic Studies Indigenous Peoples

List of Figures	p. 6
List of Tables	p. 8
Acknowledgements	p. 11
Introduction	p. 13
The Economic, Geographic, and Social Context of Montreal Working-Class Life	p. 22
Marriage, Families, and Households	p. 49
Men's Wages and the Cost of Living	p. 80
Age, Gender, and the Roles of Children	p. 118
Managing and Stretching Wages: The Work of Wives	p. 152
Managing without a Spouse: Women's Inequality Laid Bare	p. 182
Conclusion	p. 214
Tables	p. 225
Notes	p. 249
Index	p. 302
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