Research Catalog

Title

Unwilling idlers : the urban unemployed and their families in late Victorian Canada / Peter Baskerville and Eric W. Sager.

Author

Baskerville, Peter A.

Publication

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1998.

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Additional Authors

Sager, Eric W., 1946-

Description

xiv, 294 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Unwilling Idlers looks at the unemployed and their families in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in six Canadian cities: Victoria, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Hamilton, Montreal, and Halifax. The authors provide a social profile of the men and women who identified themselves as unemployed, relate the phenomenon of unemployment to family characteristics and life cycles, and explore the importance of geographical location and seasonal occupation as defining characteristics of the unemployed. The authors assess the impact of unemployment on living standards and show how workers and their families tried to cope with the problem."--Jacket.

Subject

• Canada > Economic conditions
• Canada > Social conditions
• Geschichte 1870-1910
• Unemployed > Canada > History > 19th century
• Unemployed > Canada > History
• Unemployed > Canada > Social conditions
• Unemployment > Canada > History

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-286) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. The Discovery of a Social Problem -- 3. A Profile of the Urban Unemployed -- 4. Seasonality, Occupations, and Labour Markets -- 5. Dimensions of Space and Community -- 6. Family, Work, and Income in 1901 -- 7. Living Standards and Survival Strategies -- 8. The Working Class, Social Reform, and the State -- 9. Conclusion -- App. A. The Census as Historical Source -- App. B. Estimates of Cost of Living.

ISBN

• 0802043208 (bound)
• 0802081444 (pbk.)

LCCN

cn^97932662^

OCLC

38431925

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library