Ideal Surroundings : : Domestic Life in a Working-Class Suburb in the 1920s / / Suzanne Morton.
The 1920s are seen by historians as a crucial period in the formation of the Canadian working class. In Ideal Surroundings, Suzanne Morton looks at a single working-class community as it responded to national and regional changes. Grounded in labour and feminist history, with a strong emphasis on do...
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