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Carte Obligation and Opportunity Betsy Beattie

Obligation and Opportunity

Single Maritime Women in Boston, 1870-1930

Autor: Betsy Beattie
Limbă: engleză
Legare: Carte broșată
Editura: McGill-Queen's University Press
Disponibilitate: șansă 50%
Şanse de a obține acest titlu
218.50 lei
In the years between Confederation and the Depression nearly 500,000 Maritimers left their homes to...

Informații despre carte

Autor
Betsy Beattie
Limbă
engleză
Legare
Carte - Carte broșată
Publicat
2000
Pagini
192
EAN
9780773520196
ISBN
0773520198
Enbook ID
04917777
Editura
McGill-Queen's University Press
Greutate
295
Dimensiuni
153 x 229 x 14

Descriere completă

In the years between Confederation and the Depression nearly 500,000 Maritimers left their homes to work in the United States or other parts of Canada. Why they left and how their departure affected the region's economy have long been debated but, until now, a major component of that exodus has been largely ignored. In "Obligation and Opportunity", Betsy Beattie addresses this oversight, examining the lives of the tens of thousands of single Maritime women who left to work in Boston between 1870 and 1930. Carefully crafted from oral interviews, diaries, letters, written recollections, census data, and other historical sources, "Obligation and Opportunity" opens a window into the world of the women who moved from the Maritimes to New England for work. Urged to stay through tales of danger and woe in the newspapers, they still left by the thousands, and in numbers larger than those for men. Beattie examines the rural families they left, the urban environment they entered in Boston, and the different occupations they filled. She sheds new light on the response of rural families to economic change and the effects of gender on choices for young women. She demonstrates that first-generation emigrants, who left out of a need to find work and send money back home, eased the way for second-generation emigrants, who left to seek opportunities in the big city. "Obligation and Opportunity" offers new insights not only for everyone interested in the history of the Maritimes and Boston but also for scholars and others interested in family history, women's studies, labour history, and migration studies.

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