HIST261 Lecture Notes - Social Mobility, Industrial Revolution, Tweenies
25 Feb 2014
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Topics: paternalism (jan 10. 2014, worker"s response (jan 10. 2014, gender, class, and paternal orders (jan 10. 2014, social life and leisure (jan 10. 2014, the family, canada"s first industrial revolution. The family was considered to be the essential institution and its foundation was widely defended. It was also a survival strategy as well as a class issue, which included the organization of domesticity, organization of childhood and the construction of gender roles. Economic threats to the family often precipitated working class grievances and someti9mes industrial action. Skilled workers especially cast their claims for better wages in terms of their responsibility to their families. They also still had pride in their work and felt that they ere guardians of the mysteries of the craft. They also argued for a family wage", the implication being that the husbands were to look after their wives and children and the wives and children of respectable families should not have to work for wages.
