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Workers without a causeessay 1992 • Ramirez, Bruno
Italian Canadians • North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
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...The Italians of Montrealessay 1981 • Ramirez, Bruno & Del Balzo, Michele
Italian Canadians • North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
Ramirez and Del Balzo focus in this study on what they call the 'formative period' (ca. 1900-1921) of Italian immigration to Montreal during which the community was transformed from the status of a 'colony' to a full-blown Little Italy. In this docum...