Book
Such hardworking people: Italian immigrants in postwar Toronto
McGill-Queen's University Press • Montreal • Published In 1993 • Pages: xxix, 278 , plates
By: Iacovetta, Franca.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this monograph Franca Iacovetta describes the working class experiences of Italian immigrants who came to Toronto from southern Italy between 1946 and 1965. In attempting to capture their early experiences the author addresses four major themes in this book: (1) the transition from peasant worker in an under-developed, rural economy to wage-earner in an industrial society; (2) the re-evaluation of the role of women in the immigrant culture; (3) the relations between immigrants and the host society; and (4) the development of immigrant militancy, particularly in terms of labor (e.g., labor organization, strikes, etc.). Iacovetta notes that while both women and men had to struggle for their subsistence and were often exploited, nevertheless they found innovative ways to recreate cherished rituals and customs from their homeland and were aable to derive a sense of dignity and honor from the work they performed. Much of the data presented in this study were obtained by the author form interviews and further supplemented with recent literature on immigration, family and labor studies, oral histories, and women's history.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- External migration
- History and culture change
- Labor supply and employment
- Labor relations
- Labor organization
- Collective bargaining
- Sodalities
- Priesthood
- Congregations
- Religious denominations
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Italian Canadians
- 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
- John Beierle; 2000
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1946-1965
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- Franca Iacovetta
- Includes bibliographic references (p. 223-271) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 93125296
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Italians--Canada