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A sense of their duty : middle-class formation in Victorian Ontario towns
- Title
- A sense of their duty : middle-class formation in Victorian Ontario towns / Andrew C. Holman.
- Author
- Holman, Andrew C. (Andrew Carl), 1965-
- Publication
- Montreal ; Ithaca [N.Y.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2000.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | HT690.C3 H645 2000 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xi, 243 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Using the towns of Galt and Goderich as case studies, Andrew Holman shows how population growth, industrial change, and the expansion of government contributed to profound changes to Ontario's social structure between the 1850s and the 1890s with an identifiable and self-identified middle class emerging between the idle rich and the working class. Businessmen, professionals, and white-collar workers developed a new sense of authority that extended beyond the workplace, and local electors, breadwinners, and members of voluntary associations and reform societies set middle class standards of behavior that enjoyed currency and relevance throughout the twentieth century."--Jacket
- Subject
- 1800-1899
- Middle class > Ontario > History > 19th century > Case studies
- Social values > Ontario > Case studies
- Middle class
- Social conditions
- Social values
- Middenklassen
- Goderich (Ont. : Township) > Social conditions > 19th century
- Galt (Cambridge, Ont.) > Social conditions > 19th century
- Ontario
- Ontario > Cambridge > Galt
- Ontario > Goderich (Township)
- Genre/Form
- Case studies
- History
- Case studies.
- Études de cas.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-238) and index.
- Contents
- Prologue: Approaching the Victorian Middle Class in Canadian History -- pt. 1. Work, Authority, and the Middle Class in Victortan Ontario -- 1. Boosters, Bluster, and Bonding: Enterprise and Middle-Class Formation -- 2. Honour and Authority: The Professional Middle Class -- 3. "Getting There": Situating White-Collar Workers -- pt. 2. Erecting a Moral Order, Developing Class C0mmunity -- 4. Casting Society: Voluntary Organizations and the Development of Class Community -- 5. A Community Concern: Victorian Temperance Reform -- 6. Producing and Reproducing the Middle-Class "Self."
- ISBN
- 0773518991
- 9780773518995
- 077352083X
- 9780773520837
- LCCN
- 2001339300
- OCLC
- ocm41389724
- 41389724
- SCSB-8943796
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library