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1 online resource |
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McGill-Queen's rural, wildland, and resource studies series ; 16 |
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McGill-Queen's rural, wildland, and resource studies series ; 16.
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| Contents |
Cover -- BEING NEIGHBOURS -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Bee-ing Neighbours -- 1 Busy Bees The Types of Bees, Their Frequency, and Work Processes -- 2 The Bee Network Inclusion, Household Engagement, and Equalizing the Exchange -- 3 The Quilting Bee Time, Space, Neighbourhood Aesthetics, and Collective Memory -- 4 "Yo Heave" -- The Spirit of Increase Raising the Barn, Agricultural Practise, Hospitality, and Collective Memory -- 5 Threshing Bees New Technologies and Business Arrangements |
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6 "If There Is Honey, the Bees Will Come" Foodways and Foodscapes of Plenty -- 7 Killer Bees Accidents, Violence, and Timely Resolutions -- 8 Buzzing Off The Decline of Bees -- Conclusion Wrap-Up and Legacy -- Appendix A: Table of Diarists -- Appendix B: Tables -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
"Throughout history, farm families have shared work and equipment with their neighbours to complete labour-intensive, time-sensitive, and time-consuming tasks. They benefitted materially and socially from these voluntary, flexible, loosely structured networks of reciprocal assistance, making neighbourliness a vital but overlooked aspect of agricultural change. Being Neighbours takes us into the heart of neighbourhood - the set of people near and surrounding the family - through an examination of work bees in Southern Ontario from 1830 to 1960. The "bee" was a special event where people gathered to work on a neighbour's farm like bees in a hive for a wide variety of purposes, including barn-raising, logging, threshing, quilting, turkey plucking, and apple paring. Drawing on the diaries of over one hundred men and women, Catharine Wilson takes readers into families' daily lives, the intricacies of their labour exchange, their workways, feasts, and hospitality. Through the prism of the bee and a close reading of the diaries, she uncovers the subtle social politics of mutual dependency, the expectations neighbours had of each other, and their ways of managing conflict and crisis. This book adds to the literature on cooperative work that focuses on evaluating its economic efficiency and complicates histories of capitalism that place communal values at odds with market orientation. Beautifully written, engaging, and richly detailed and illustrated, Being Neighbours reveals the visceral textures of rural life."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 08, 2022) |
| Subject |
Bees (Cooperative gatherings) -- Ontario, Southern -- History
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Community life -- Ontario, Southern -- History
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Cooperation -- Ontario, Southern -- History
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Social participation -- Ontario, Southern -- History
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Country life -- Ontario, Southern -- History
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HISTORY / Canada / General.
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Bees (Cooperative gatherings)
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Community life
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Cooperation
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Country life
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Social participation
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Southern Ontario
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0228015871 |
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9780228015888 |
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022801588X |
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9780228015871 |
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