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On Maintaining a Francophone Identity in Cohoes, NY
From the author: "One third of the population of Cohoes, New York, is descended from French-Canadians who immigrated to the northeastern United States between 1840 and 1930. Since the end of immigration, the close-knit community centered on the French parish has undergone profound changes and French has ceased to be the language of everyday communication among its members. This paper describes the characteristic behaviors and attitudes which set the remaining Cohoes French speakers off as a group from other minority language communities and help them maintain their francophone identity."Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Cohoes NY, Community: Customs and Social Life, Demography, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Hudson River Valley, Language and Linguistics, Mohawk River Valley, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Language and Linguistics, Personal History: Biography and Oral History -
J'aime New York : A Bilingual Guide to the French Heritage of New York State / Guide bilingue de l'héritage français de l'état de New York
Second edition of guide to resources of French and French Canadian histories and heritage in the state of New York. Historical introduction to New York explorers, settlers, and immigrants of French heritage from as early as 1524. Guide to people, places, and events (current and historical) in each of the state's major districts, complete with resource descriptions and contact information. Presented in English and French. Guide de ressources aux histoires et héritage français et canadien-français dans l'état de New York. Une introduction historique aux explorateurs, colons, et immigrants du patrimoine français, à partir de 1524. Guide aux gens, endroits, et événements (actuelles et historiques) dans tous dans tous grands districts de l'ètat. Des descriptions des certaines ressources actuelles, informations de contact, et plus. Présenté en anglais et en français.Tags Albany NY, Blooming Grove NY, Cohoes NY, East Greenbush NY, Exploration and Colonization, France, Gardiner NY, Hudson River Valley, Huguenots, Larchmont NY, Native Americans, New Paltz NY, New Rochelle NY, New York, New York NY, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Travel and Tourism, North America, Oneida NY, Onendaga NY, Plattsburgh NY, Québec, Rye NY, Saratoga Springs NY, Schenectady NY, Tivoli NY -
Worker City, Company Town : Iron and Cotton-Worker Protest in Troy and Cohoes, New York, 1855-1884
A history of the growth of nineteenth-century labor movements in the neighboring industrial cities of Troy and Cohoes, New York, on the banks of the Hudson River. The labor and market conditions, social contexts, and events specific to each city that shed light on distinct origins of labor protest. Cotton, textile, and iron industries, their economic growth, and their immigrant workers in industrial New York. The connection between immigrant ethnicity, immigrant acculturation, or "adaptation," in United States industrial cities, and the occurence of collective worker protest. (3) Contains a substantial bibliography of primary and secondary sources. From the author: "[This book] examines worker adaptation in two industrial capitalist societies maturing between 1855 and 1884, and describes how specific forces and institutions affected the timing, stages, origins, and character of protest therein" (10-11).Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Albany NY, Business and Economics, Cohoes NY, Community: Customs and Social Life, Demography, Emigration and Immigration, English Americans, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, German Americans, Hudson River Valley, Irish Americans, Labor History, Mills and Mill Work, New York, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Scottish Americans, Social History, Troy NY, Violence -
J'aime le New York : A Bilingual Guide to the French Heritage of New York State
French heritage travel and resource guide to New York state, divided by region and described by town and city. From the foreword to the text: "Continuing the tradition begun in the 17th century, French and Canadian ties flourish in New York which attracts businesses and commerce from Canada, its largest trading partner, as well as from France. This guide begins to tell the story of the memorable but half-forgotten chapters of New York State's French history which form the backdrop for today's ties with France and Canada. It was made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to the Franco-American and Quebec Heritage Series at the State University of New York at Albany." -
Working-Class Women in the Gilded Age : Factory, Community and Family Life among Cohoes, New York, Cotton Workers
An examination of industrial labor through the lenses of ethnicity and gender in 19th-century Cohoes, New York. From the text: "This essay intends to examine the ways in which the cultural experience of the predominantly immigrant working class might have distorted their view of their social conditions and impaired their ability to focus on the origins of their oppression. Consequently, working-class violence, rather than being directed at the manufacturer, was directed at the ranks of the unemployed ready to claim their jobs. In this way, the working class did not engage in aggressive violence to win a social revolution so much as it fought defensive struggles to protect its modest gains."