Franco American Library / Bibliothèque franco-américaine

Mobility Potential and the Quality of Life in Working-Class Lowell, Massachusetts : The French Canadians ca. 1870

Item

Title

Mobility Potential and the Quality of Life in Working-Class Lowell, Massachusetts : The French Canadians ca. 1870

Creator

Early, Frances H.

Description

Brief essay on quality of working-class life in Lowell, Massachusetts at the end of the nineteenth century, during a period of heavy emigration from French Canada. Includes information on census research concerning French Canadians of that place and period, and discusses how a particularly French-Canadian American working-class developed out of early immigrant "peasantry."

Date

1977

Language

en

Type

Journal Article

Identifier

Coverage

1865-1900; Lowell, Massachusetts

Publication Title

Labour/Le Travail

Collection