A Nation of immigrants : women, workers, and communities in Canadian history, 1840s-1960s / edited by Franca Iacovetta with Paula Draper and Robert Ventresca.

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 / Scott W. See -- St. Patrick's Day parades in nineteenth-century Toronto : a study of immigrant adjustment and elite control / Michael Cottrell -- 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 / Michael Wayne -- 'Self-reliance is the true road to independence' : ideology and the ex-slaves in Buxton and Chatham / Howard Law -- Mary Ann Shadd and the search for equality / Jason H. Silverman -- Settling the Canadian West " the 'exotic' continentals -- A Roumanian pioneer / Anne B. Woywitka -- The Ukrainian impress on the Canadian West / James W. Darlington -- 'Women's work' : paid labour, community-building, and protest -- 'I won't be a slave!' Finnish domestics in Canada, 1911-1930 / Varpu Lindström -- Abraham's daughters : women, charity, and power in the Canadian Jewish community / Paula J. Draper and Janice B. Karlinsky.

Men without women : 'bachelor' workers and gendered identities -- Men without women : Italian migrants in Canada, 1885-1930 / Robert F. Harney -- Bachelor workers / Anthony B. Chan -- Bachelors, boarding-houses, and blind pigs : gender construction in a multi-ethnic mining camp, 1909-1920 / Nancy M. Forestell -- Demanding rights, organizing for change : militants and radicals -- Finnish radicalism and labour activism in the Northern Ontario woods / Ian Radforth -- Sewing solidarity : the Eaton's strike of 1912 / Ruth A. Frager -- Relief strike : immigrant workers and the great depression in Crowland, Ontario, 1930-1935 / Carmela Patrias -- 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 / Ruth Compton Brouwer -- 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 / Irving Abella and Harold Troper -- 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 / Howard Palmer -- Making 'New Canadians' : social workers, women, and the reshaping of immigrant families / Franca Iacovetta.

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