Book
Family and community: Italian immigrants in Buffalo, 1880-1930
Cornell University Press • Ithaca • Published In 1977 • Pages:
By: Yans-McLaughlin, Virginia.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- External migration
- Occupational specialization
- Labor supply and employment
- Gender status
- Household
- Family relationships
- Political movements
- Private welfare agencies
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Italian Americans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 1999
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1973
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1880-1930
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Buffalo, New York, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Virginia Yans-McLaughlin
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 77003254
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Italian Americans