UID:
almafu_9959231010702883
Umfang:
1 online resource (189 p.)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-282-85843-2
,
9786612858437
,
0-7735-6822-0
Inhalt:
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.
Anmerkung:
Revision of the author's dissertation (Ph. D.)--University of Maine, 1994.
,
Front Matter --
,
Contents --
,
Tables and Figures --
,
Illustrations --
,
Acknowledgments --
,
Introduction: The Unfinished History of Maritime Out-migration --
,
The Vanguard --
,
Changes at Home: The Maritime Economy and the Exodus, 1850–1890 --
,
Single Maritime Women in Boston, 1880 --
,
Eldorado --
,
The Maritimes in the Early Twentieth Century --
,
Working in Boston in the Early Twentieth Century --
,
Living in Boston in the Early Twentieth Century --
,
Epilogue and Conclusion --
,
Domestic and Agricultural Production in the Maritimes, 1871–1891 --
,
Occupation Tables --
,
Notes --
,
Index
,
English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-7735-2019-8
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-7735-2018-X
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1515/9780773568228
Bookmarklink
