Obligation and Opportunity: Single Maritime Women in Boston, 1870-1930

Obligation and Opportunity: Single Maritime Women in Boston, 1870-1930
ISBN-10
077352018X
ISBN-13
9780773520189
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
176
Language
English
Published
2000-04-18
Publisher
McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Authors
Betsy Beattie, Mary Elizabeth Beattie

Description

In the years between Confederation and the Depression nearly 500,000 Maritimers left their homes to work in the United States or other parts of Canada. Why they left and how their departure affected the region's economy have long been debated but, until now, a major component of that exodus has been largely ignored. In Obligation and Opportunity Betsy Beattie addresses this oversight, examining the lives of the tens of thousands of single Maritime women who left to work in Boston between 1870 and 1930.

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