Paradise : class, commuters, and ethnicity in rural Ontario / Stanley R. Barrett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barrett, Stanley R., author.

Series:

Anthropological horizons ; 5.

Anthropological Horizons ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology, Rural--Ontario.

Sociology, Rural.

Social classes--Ontario.

Social classes.

Urban-rural migration--Ontario.

Urban-rural migration.

Ontario--Race relations.

Ontario.

Ontario--Ethnic relations.

Ontario--Rural conditions.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 1994.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Paradise €concentrates on the transformed class system of one community in rural Ontario. In a comparison of the decade following the First World War and the 1980s, Stanley R. Barrett analyses the changing face and structure of a town as it has had to adapt to modern social and economic realities.

Contents:

Cover

CONTENTS

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Part One Paradise Lost: Natives

1 Historical Sketches

2 The Framework of the Study

3 Stratification

4 The Great Escape

Part Two Paradise Found: Newcomers

5 Modern Pioneers

6 The Commuting Life

7 Growing Pains

Part Three Perfect Strangers: Ethnic Minorities

8 British Subjects and Aliens

9 African and Asian Canadians

10 Jews and French Canadians

11 Patterns of Prejudice

12 Wider Issues

Appendix A: Methodology

Appendix B: Interview Schedule for Natives

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

K

L

M

N

O

P

R

S

V

W.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4426-5662-X

1-4426-3331-X

OCLC:

929153678