Families in Transition Industry and Population in Nineteenth-Century Saint-Hyacinthe
by Gossage, Peter
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- ISBN 10
- 0773518479
- ISBN 13
- 9780773518476
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Montreal: Mcgill Queens University Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1999. 1st. Hardcover. 0773518479 . Studies on the History of Quebec.; 9.36 X 6.46 X 1.22 inches; 299 pages; Economic and social conditions in Saint-Hyacinthe changed dramatically in the later nineteenth century with the arrival of the railway and the emergence of manufacturing industry. In "Families in Transition" Peter Gossage shows how the rise of industrial capitalism transformed the lives of the town's French-speaking, Catholic families. Gossage uses a family-reconstitution method, drawing on local parish registers and manuscript-census schedules, to focus on marriage, household organisation, and family size in this context of social and economic change. Family formation was profoundly affected as couples adjusted to the new urban, industrial setting. Gossage demonstrates that demographic behaviour was increasingly differentiated by social class, with distinct marriage and fertility patterns emerging among bourgeois and proletarian families. Bourgeois women who married in the 1860s, for example, were already limiting family size, a crucial shift that did not occur in working-class families until almost a generation later. "Families in Transition" demonstrates the extent to which stereotypes about family life in Quebec before the Quiet Revolution need to be revisited. Far from being passive, static, uniformly prolific, and constrained by religious and cultural perspectives, Saint-Hyacinthe families responded quickly to the changing realities of the day, reinventing marriage patterns and domestic arrangements to fit the new industrial capitalism of the nineteenth century. In this sense they were truly "Families in Transition". Peter Gossage is associate professor of history and political science at Universite de Sherbrooke. .
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- Ainsworth Books (CA)
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- 16994
- Title
- Families in Transition Industry and Population in Nineteenth-Century Saint-Hyacinthe
- Author
- Gossage, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0773518479
- ISBN 13
- 9780773518476
- Publisher
- Mcgill Queens University Press
- Place of Publication
- Montreal
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- 0773518479, Sociology, Quebec, families, Social Sciences
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