Book
Family and community: Italian immigrants in Buffalo, 1880-1930
Cornell University Press • Ithaca • Published In 1977 • Pages:
By: Yans-McLaughlin, Virginia.
Abstract
This study examines the role of the family in the transition of Italian immigrants from peasants to industrial workers in Buffalo, New York. Yans-McLaughlin shows how the family adapted to immigration, urbanization, and industrialization by maintaining some traditions. She shows how the family influenced the choices members made with regard to work, income, and production. For example although opportunities for women to work outside the family were ample, the patriarchal culture of the family discouraged any such employment. Also, the chief goal of the family and key to its continuity, was property ownership, a decision made over and above children's educational goals. Yans-McLaughlin also discusses how social workers failed to understand and accommodate immigrant family values and instead imposed on them their own middle-class values.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2000
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Historian
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Ian Skoggard ; 1999
- Field Date
- 1973
- Coverage Date
- 1880-1930
- Coverage Place
- Buffalo, New York, United States
- Notes
- Virginia Yans-McLaughlin
- LCCN
- 77003254
- LCSH
- Italian Americans