A Sense of Their Duty: Middle-Class Formation in Victorian Ontario Towns

Holman, Andrew C.

ISBN 10: 077352083X / ISBN 13: 9780773520837

Editore: Mcgill Queens Univ Pr, 2000

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Titolo: A Sense of Their Duty: Middle-Class ...

Casa editrice: Mcgill Queens Univ Pr

Data di pubblicazione: 2000

Legatura: Paperback

Condizione: Very Good

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Riassunto:

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.

L'autore:

Andrew C. Holman teaches in the Department of History and in the Canadian Studies Program at Bridgewater State College, in Massachusetts.