Автор: Agnoletto, Stefano Название: Italians who built toronto ISBN: 3034317735 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783034317733 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 14250.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: After World War II, hundreds of thousands of Italians emigrated to Toronto. This book describes their labour, business, social and cultural history as they settled in their new home. It addresses fundamental issues that impacted both them and the city, including ethnic economic niching, unionization, urban proletarianization and migrants’ entrepreneurship. In addressing these issues the book focuses on the role played by a specific economic sector in enabling immigrants to find their place in their new host society. More specifically, this study looks at the residential sector of the construction industry that, between the 1950s and the 1970s, represented a typical economic ethnic niche for newly arrived Italians. In fact, tens of thousands of Italian men found work in this sector as labourers, bricklayers, carpenters, plasterers and cement finishers, while hundreds of others became contractors, subcontractors or small employers in the same industry. This book is about these real people. It gives voice to a community formed both by entrepreneurial subcontractors who created companies out of nothing and a large group of exploited workers who fought successfully for their rights. In this book you will find stories of inventiveness and hope as well as of oppression and despair. The purpose is to offer an original approach to issues arising from the economic and social history of twentieth-century mass migrations.
Автор: Duncan Carol B. Название: This Spot of Ground: Spiritual Baptists in Toronto ISBN: 1554588456 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781554588459 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 6433.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This Spot of Ground: Spiritual Baptists in Toronto represents the first detailed exploration of an African-Caribbean religion in the context of contemporary migration to Canada. Toronto is home to Canadas largest black population, a significant portion of which comprises Caribbean migrants and their descendants. This book shows how the development of the Spiritual Baptist religion in Canada has been shaped by the immigration experiences of church members, the large majority of whom are women, and it examines the ways in which religious experiences have mediated the members experiences of migration and everyday life in Canada. This Spot of Ground is based on a critical ethnography, with in-depth interviews and participant observations of church services and other ritual activities, including baptism and pilgrimage and field research in Trinidad that explores the transnational linkages with Spiritual Baptists there. The book addresses theoretical and methodological issues also, including the development of perspectives suitable for examining diasporic African religious and cultural expressions characterized by transnational migration, an emphasis on oral tradition as the repository of cultural history, and linguistic and cultural hybridity. This Spot of Ground contributes new information to the study of Caribbean religion and culture in the diaspora, providing a detailed examination of the significance of religion in the immigration process and identity and community formations of Caribbean people in Canada.
Автор: Carruthers, Mary (Editor), Ziolkowski, Jan M (Edit Название: The Medieval Craft of Memory : An Anthology of Texts and Pictures ISBN: 0812218817 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780812218817 Издательство: University of Toronto Press Рейтинг: Цена: 6026.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: "A volume that will interest a wide spectrum of readers."-Patrick Geary, University of California, Los Angeles
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