A sense of their duty : middle-class formation in Victorian Ontario towns /

"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...

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Main Author: Holman, Andrew C. 1965-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal ; Ithaca [N.Y.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2000.
Series:CEL - Canadian Publishers Collection.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Tables, Maps, and Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Illustrations
  • Prologue: Approaching the Victorian Middle Class in Canadian History
  • PART ONE: WORK, AUTHORITY, AND THE MIDDLE CLASS IN VICTORIAN ONTARIO
  • 1 Boosters, Bluster, and Bonding: Enterprise and Middle-Class Formation
  • 2 Honour and Authority: The Professional Middle Class
  • 3 Getting There: Situating White-Collar Workers
  • PART TWO: ERECTING A MORAL ORDER, DEVELOPING CLASS COMMUNITY
  • 4 Casting Society: Voluntary Organizations and the Development of Class Community
  • 5 A Community Concern: Victorian Temperance Reform6 Producing and Reproducing the Middle-Class Self
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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