A Nation of immigrants : women, workers, and communities in Canadian history, 1840s-1960s /

A Nation of immigrants : women, workers, and communities in Canadian history, 1840s-1960s / edited by Franca Iacovetta with Paula Draper and Robert Ventresca. - Toronto, ON : University of Toronto Press, (c)2007, (c)1998. - 1 online resource (xiv, 513 pages)

Includes bibliographical references.

The Irish in nineteenth-century Canada : class, culture, and conflict -- The Orange Order and social violence in mid-nineteenth century St. John / St. Patrick's Day parades in nineteenth-century Toronto : a study of immigrant adjustment and elite control / American Blacks in nineteenth-century Ontario : challenging the stereotypes -- The black population of Canada West on the eve of the American Civil War : a reassessment based on the manuscript census of 1861 / 'Self-reliance is the true road to independence' : ideology and the ex-slaves in Buxton and Chatham / Mary Ann Shadd and the search for equality / Settling the Canadian West " the 'exotic' continentals -- A Roumanian pioneer / The Ukrainian impress on the Canadian West / 'Women's work' : paid labour, community-building, and protest -- 'I won't be a slave!' Finnish domestics in Canada, 1911-1930 / Abraham's daughters : women, charity, and power in the Canadian Jewish community / Scott W. See -- Michael Cottrell -- Michael Wayne -- Howard Law -- Jason H. Silverman -- Anne B. Woywitka -- James W. Darlington -- Varpu Lindström -- Paula J. Draper and Janice B. Karlinsky. Men without women : 'bachelor' workers and gendered identities -- Men without women : Italian migrants in Canada, 1885-1930 / Bachelor workers / Bachelors, boarding-houses, and blind pigs : gender construction in a multi-ethnic mining camp, 1909-1920 / Demanding rights, organizing for change : militants and radicals -- Finnish radicalism and labour activism in the Northern Ontario woods / Sewing solidarity : the Eaton's strike of 1912 / Relief strike : immigrant workers and the great depression in Crowland, Ontario, 1930-1935 / Encountering the 'other' : society and state responses, 1900s-1930s -- A disgrace to 'Christian Canada' : Protestant foreign missionary concerns about the treatment of South Asians in Canada, 1907-1940 / State repression of labour and the left in Canada, 1914-1920 : the impact of the First World War -- 'The line must be drawn somewhere' : Canada and the Jewish refugees, 1933-1939 / Regulating minorities in 'hot' and 'cold' war contexts, 1939-1960s -- Ethnic relations in wartime : nationalism and European minorities in Alberta during the Second World War / Making 'New Canadians' : social workers, women, and the reshaping of immigrant families / Robert F. Harney -- Anthony B. Chan -- Nancy M. Forestell -- Ian Radforth -- Ruth A. Frager -- Carmela Patrias -- Ruth Compton Brouwer -- Irving Abella and Harold Troper -- Howard Palmer -- Franca Iacovetta.



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Immigrants--History.--Canada
Multiculturalism--Canada.


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