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Mobility Trajectories and Family Dynamics: History and Generation in the New York Immigrant Experience.

• Authors : Foner, Nancy

Subjects: EMIGRATION & immigration; IMMIGRANTS; IMMIGRANT familiesNEW York (N.Y.); NEW York (State)

• Source: Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies; Spring/Summer2009, Vol. 18 Issue 1/2, p24-43, 20p

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Picture Windows: How the Suburbs Happened.

• Authors : Harris, Richard

• Source: Urban History Review / Revue d'Histoire Urbaine; Oct2000, Vol. 29 Issue 1, p69-70, 2p

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Breadwinning Daughters : Young Working Women in a Depression-Era City, 1929-1939

• Authors : Katrina Srigley

Subjects: Women employees--Ontario--Toronto--Economic conditions--20th century; Single women--Employment--Ontario--Toronto--History--20th century; Young women--Employment--Ontario--Toronto--History--20th centuryHISTORY / Canada / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies

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Widows in White : Migration and the Transformation of Rural Women, Sicily, 1880-1928

• Authors : Linda Reeder

Subjects: Rural women--Italy--Sicily--Social conditionsHISTORY / Europe / Italy; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies

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Ideal Surroundings : Domestic Life in a Working-Class Suburb in the 1920s

• Authors : Suzanne Morton

Subjects: Families--Nova Scotia--Halifax--History--20th century; Working class--Nova Scotia--Halifax--History--20th century; Sex role--Nova Scotia--Halifax--History--20th centurySOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory; HISTORY / Canada / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family

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Toronto's Girl Problem : The Perils and Pleasures of the City, 1880-1930

• Authors : Carolyn Strange

Subjects: Young women--Ontario--Toronto--Economic conditions; Single women--Ontario--Toronto--Social conditions; Single women--Ontario--Toronto--Economic conditionsHISTORY / Canada / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban

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Sweatshop Strife : Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Jewish Labour Movement of Toronto, 1900-1939

• Authors : Ruth A. Frager

Subjects: Jewish labor unions--Ontario--Toronto--History; Labor movement--Ontario--Toronto--History; Women in the labor movement--Ontario--TorontoHISTORY / Canada / Post-Confederation (1867-); HISTORY / Social History; LAW / Labor & Employment

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The Gender of Breadwinners : Women, Men and Change in Two Industrial Towns, 1880-1950

• Authors : Joy Parr

Subjects: Sexual division of labor--Ontario--Paris; Sexual division of labor--Ontario--Hanover; Sexual division of labor--Ontario--Hanover--HistoryHISTORY / Canada / General

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