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Author Baillargeon, Denyse

Title Making Do : Women, Family and Home in Montreal during the Great Depression
Published Waterloo : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (245 pages)
Series Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
Studies in childhood and family in Canada
Contents Table of Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 Domestic Labour and Economic Crisis; Chapter 2 From Birth to Marriage; Chapter 3 Beyond Romance: Courtship and Marriage; Chapter 4 Motherhood; Chapter 5 Working for Pay and Managing the Household Finances; Chapter 6 Housework; Chapter 7 State, Family, Neighbours, and Credit; Conclusion; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary Life in the Great Depression -- long lines of unemployed, soup kitchens, men riding the rails, public works projects -- these are the graphic images of the Great Depression of the 1930s, popularized by the press and seared into our memories. But outside of a few distinctive stories gathered from the oral and anecdotal writings on strategies used to survive, we know next to nothing about the daily life of the working class during those long and hungry years. How did the families survive when the principal breadwinner was unemployed? How did they feed, shelter and clothe themselves when relief
Notes Print version record
Subject Housewives -- Québec (Province) -- History
Housewives -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal -- History
Depressions -- 1929 -- Québec (Province)
Women -- Québec (Province) -- Social conditions
Women -- Québec (Province) -- Economic conditions
Depressions
Housewives
Social conditions
Women -- Economic conditions
Women -- Social conditions
SUBJECT Montréal (Québec) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Subject Québec
Québec -- Montréal
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Klein, Yvonne
ISBN 9780889208872
0889208875