Ebook: Such Hardworking People: Italian Immigrants in Postwar Toronto
Author: Franca Iacovetta
- Series: McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History, 12
- Year: 1992
- Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
- Language: English
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Such Hardworking People provides a perceptive description of the working-class experiences of immigrants who came to Toronto from southern Italy between 1946 and 1965. Franca Iacovetta focuses on the relations between newly arrived workers and their families, showing that the Italians who came to Toronto during this period were predominantly young, healthy women and men eager to obtain jobs and prepared to make sacrifices in order to secure a more comfortable life for themselves and their children.
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