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Canada's age of industry, 1849-1896 / [edited by] Michael S. Cross and Gregory S. Kealey.

Cross, Michael S., 1938- (Added Author). Kealey, Gregory S., 1948- (Added Author).

Summary:

This volume presents a series of scholarly articles which range from an essay by Gregory Kealey on Toronto's Industrial Revolution in the last half of the nineteenth century to a fascinating study by Wendy Mitchinson of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, "A Study of Nineteenth-Century Feminism." Also included are examinations of the working class, violence and protest, social structure, and government encouragement of industrial

Record details

ISBN: 0771024584
Physical Description: 229 p. ; 20 cm.
Publisher: Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 1982.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

I.Economic overview: Toronto's industrial revolution 1850-1892 / Gregory S. Kealey ; The national policy and the industrialization of the Maritimes / T.W. Acheson -- II. Social structure: Land, population, and social change: the "critical years" in rural Canada west / David Gagan -- III. The working class: The culture of control / Bryan D. Palmer -- IV. Violence and protest: Cavalry or police: keeping the peace on two adjacent frontiers, 1870-1900 / Desmond Morton -- V. Social control: The WCTU: "for God, home, and native land": a study of nineteenth-century feminism -- VI. Women: One hundred and two muffled voices: Canada's industrial women in the 1880's / Susan Trofimenkoff.