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Toronto's Girl Problem: The Perils and Pleasures of the City, 1880-1930 Paperback - 1995
by Carolyn Strange
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- Title Toronto's Girl Problem: The Perils and Pleasures of the City, 1880-1930
- Author Carolyn Strange
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 2nd Revised edit
- Pages 300
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Toronto Press, Toronto
- Date 1995
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780802072030 / 0802072038
- Weight 1.08 lbs (0.49 kg)
- Dimensions 8.99 x 6.02 x 0.94 in (22.83 x 15.29 x 2.39 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1900-1949
- Chronological Period: 1851-1899
- Cultural Region: Canadian
- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Geographic Orientation: Ontario
- Locality: Toronto, Ontario
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Single women - Employment - Ontario -, Young women - Employment - Ontario - Toronto
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95184860
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.489
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Trade Paperback. Book and Outer Cover are in Excellent Condition, Like New. 299 pgs. HISTORY LOCAL > ONTARIO > TORONTO,Overall Rating: EXCELLENT CONDITION, LIKE NEW. SHIPS FROM ONTARIO. Title: Toronto's Gril Problem, The Perils and Pleasures of the City, 1880 - 1930. Author: Strange, Carolyn Publisher: University of Toronto Press Incorporated, Toronto, ON, 1995ISBN: 0-8020-7203-8 With the turn of the century came increased industrialization and urbanization, and in Toronto one of the most visible results of this modernization was the influx of young, single women to the city. They came seeking work, independence, and excitement, but they were not to realize these goals without contention.Carolyn Strange examines the rise of the Toronto 'working girl,' the various agencies that 'discovered' her, the nature of 'the girl problem' from the point of view of moral overseers, the various strategies devised…
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