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Unwilling idlers

the urban unemployed and their families in late Victorian Canada

by Peter A. Baskerville

1998 294 pages eng

Unwilling Idlers looks at the unemployed and their families in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in six Canadian cities: Victoria, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Hamilton, Montreal, and Halifax. The authors provide a social profile of the men and women who identified themselves as unemployed, …

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