essay
Workers without a cause: Italian immigrant labour in Montreal, 1880-1930
Arrangiarsi : the Italian immigration experience on Canada • Montreal, Quebec, Canada • Published In 1992 • Pages: 119-134
By: Ramirez, Bruno.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The major topic of this study is the Italian immigrant labor force in Montreal, Canada during the period of 1880-1930. Ramirez describes the various types of labor available to the immigrants, kinship and PAESI networks used in obtaining work, ethnic discrimination, and cases in which Italian workers developed their own entrepreneural enterprises.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- External migration
- Labor supply and employment
- Labor relations
- Ethnic stratification
- Social relationships and groups
- 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
- essay
- 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
- 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
- 1880-1930
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- Bruno Ramirez
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-134)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 89197577
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Italians--Canada