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- catalog abstract ""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.".
- catalog contributor b10964635.
- catalog contributor b10964636.
- catalog coverage "Canada Economic conditions.".
- catalog coverage "Canada Social conditions.".
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description ""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.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-286) and index.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 294 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Unwilling idlers.".
- catalog identifier "0802043208 (bound)".
- catalog identifier "0802081444 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Unwilling idlers.".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Toronto : University of Toronto Press,".
- catalog relation "Unwilling idlers.".
- catalog spatial "Canada Economic conditions.".
- catalog spatial "Canada Social conditions.".
- catalog spatial "Canada".
- catalog subject "331.13/7971/09034 21".
- catalog subject "HD5728 .B354 1998".
- catalog subject "Unemployed Canada History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Unemployed Canada History.".
- catalog subject "Unemployed Canada Social conditions.".
- catalog subject "Unemployment Canada History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Unwilling idlers : the urban unemployed and their families in late Victorian Canada / Peter Baskerville and Eric W. Sager.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".