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- Author: Sharkey, Jim (writer & producer)
Date: 2004
Language: English
Find in a Library: 661411507
Full title of the film: "Hard Work: 'To Make Both Ends Meet' : Maine Women's Voices, 1888." From Folkfilms.com: "In 1888 the Maine State Bureau of Industrial and Labor Statistics conducted a survey to assess working conditions for women in the…
- Author: Fournier, Claude
Date: 1988
Language: Français
Read: Regarder: BANDE-ANNONCE
Un drame télévisé sur l'émigration canadienne française à la Nouvelle-Angleterre au début de la vingtième siècle, et les travailleurs des usines textiles de l'époque industrielle aux Etats-Unis.
- Author: Rosenblum, Nina
Date: 1984
Language: English
Find in a Library: 36332787
Documentary film about twentieth-century photographer and historian Lewis Hine, most famous for exposing poor working conditions and child labor in industrial America. Hine, as seen in this film, was also the photographer commissioned to capture on…
- Author: Moran, William (speaker)
Date: 2002 October 26
Language: English
Find in a Library: 174144-1 (C-SPAN Video Library)
A presentation by William Moran on his book, "The Belles of New England," as a portion of the 2002 Concord Festival of Authors, Concord, Massachusetts. From C-SPAN: "Mr. Moran discussed his book 'The Belles of New England: The Women of the Textile…
- Author: BeÌlanger, Damien-Claude
Date: 2011
Language: en
Find in a Library: 466659872
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From University of Toronto Press: "As a country with enormous economic, military, and cultural power, the United States can seem an overwhelming neighbour - one that demands consideration by politicians, thinkers, and cultural figures. Prejudice and…
- Author: Crean, Susan M.
- Author: Rioux, Marcel
Date: 1983
Language: en
Find in a Library: 10800674
Find Online: OL2881627M
Book-length essay by two Canadian scholars on altering and asserting the political, social, and economic strengths of Canada and Quebec, respectively, amidst "American Pre-eminence" in the late 20th century. Suggestions on efforts to reshape Canadian…
- Author: Pelletier, Martine A.
Date: 1976
Language: en
Find in a Library: 3047975
A pictorial history of Van Buren, Maine at the beginning of the twentieth century. Most of the book's photos were taken by Joseph Michael Bouchard (b. 1869) and C.C. Caron, reproduced out of their original glass-plate form to be featured in this…
- Author: Rand, John A.
- Author: Leamon, James S.
Date: 1975
Language: en; fr
Find in a Library: 1502215
Find Online: OL5188250M
A short history of Lewiston and Auburn, Maine, published on the centennial year of the local "Peoples Savings Bank" and conceived through the lens of that financial institution. Historical content is segmented by decade, each chapter illustrated with…
- Author: Hareven, Tamara K. (editor)
- Author: Vinovskis, Maris (editor)
Date: 1978
Language: en
Find in a Library: 4004118
A collection of papers on family history and demography in the United States. Based on 1974 Williams College seminar. Coedited by the author of "Amoskeag": a study in oral history on millwork in Manchester, New Hampshire. From a review of "Family and…
- Author: Banks, James A.
Date: 1991
Language: English
Find in a Library: 22389342
Find Online: OL1861367W
From publisher's website: "Divided into five parts, 'Teaching Strategies for Ethnic Studies' emphasizes that the main goal of the multicultural curriculum should be to help students develop the ability to make reflective decisions so that they can,…
- Author: Martin, André (editor)
Date: 1980
Volume: 2 of 8
Language: en; fr
Find in a Library: 6523696
Volume 2 of an eight-part series on Franco American history and life. From ERIC: "Intended to help readers develop an appreciation of the contributions of Franco-Americans to the cultural heritage of the United States, this book, the second of six…
- Author: Giguère, Madeleine (editor)
Date: 1981
Volume: 3 of 8
Language: en
Find in a Library: 6523696
Volume 3 of an eight-part series on Franco American history and life. From ERIC: "Intended to help readers develop an appreciation of the contributions of Franco-Americans to the cultural heritage of the United States, this book, the third of six…
- Author: Giguère, Madeleine (editor)
Date: 1981
Volume: 4 of 8
Language: en
Find in a Library: 6523696
Volume 4 of an eight-part series on Franco American history and life. From ERIC: "Intended to help readers develop an appreciation of the contributions of Franco-Americans to the cultural heritage of the United States, this book, the fourth of six…
- Author: Allain, Mathé (editor)
- Author: Brasseaux, Carl A. (editor)
Date: 1981
Volume: 5 of 8
Language: en; fr
Find in a Library: 6523696
Volume 5 of a eight-part series on Franco American history and life. From ERIC: "Intended to help readers develop an appreciation of the contributions of Franco-Americans to the cultural heritage of the United States, this book, the fifth of six…
- Author: Allain, Mathé (editor)
- Author: Brasseaux, Carl A. (editor)
Date: 1981
Volume: 6 of 8
Language: en
Find in a Library: 6523696
Volume 6 of a eight-part series on Franco American history and life. From ERIC: "Intended to help readers develop an appreciation of the contributions of Franco-Americans to the cultural heritage of the United States, this book, the fourth of six…
- Author: Albert, Renaud S. (editor)
Date: 1979
Volume: 1 of 8
Language: en
Find in a Library: 6523696
Volume 1 of an eight-part series on Franco American history and life. From ERIC: "A brief narrative description of the journal article, document, or resource. Intended to help readers develop an appreciation of the contributions of Franco-Americans…
- Author: Mindel, Charles H.
Date: 1998
Language: en
Find in a Library: 1975976
Find Online: OL8814596W
Collection of essays on the sociology of the family in the United States, with a particular reliance upon the cultural diversity of ethnic immigrant groups. The 1976 edition of the text - the edition available in most libraries - contains an essay…
- Author: Bodnar, John E.
Date: 1985
Language: en
Find in a Library: 11157613
Find Online: OL8327812W
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An overview of American immigration and ethnic histories from American cities of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Written by the Director of Oral History Research at the University of Indiana, Bloomington. From Indiana University…
- Author: Cameron, Ardis
Date: 1995
Language: en
Find in a Library: 26932573
Find Online: OL9368720M
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New England women's labor history text from a professor of American and New England studies at the University of Southern Maine. Focuses on Lawrence, Massachusetts, as a town with a diversity of worker and ethnic experience, and the relationship…
- Author: Downs, Jacques M.
Date: 1985
Language: en
Find in a Library: 12419914
Find Online: OL2535469M
A photo-history of the cities of the Saco River Valley in southern Maine. A heavily researched and crafted exhibition of landscapes from colonization to contemporary times, 'The Cities on the Saco' weaves a storytelling tapestry of Saco, Biddeford,…
- Author: Dublin, Thomas
Date: 1979
Language: en
Find in a Library: 4805234
Find Online: OL1859015W
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From Columbia University Press: "In this prize-winning study, Thomas Dublin explores, in carefully researched detail, the lives and experiences of the first generation of American women to face the demands of industrial capitalism. Dublin describes…
- Author: Frenette, Yves (rédacteur)
- Author: Pâquet, Martin (rédacteur)
- Author: Lamarre, Jean (rédacteur)
Date: 2002
Language: fr
Find in a Library: 50236360
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Recuil d'essaies en l'honneur d'Yves Roby, un historien québécois, par ses collègues et ses anciens étudiants. Des études sur les sujets importants de la carrière de Roby: l'historiographie; "les espaces québecois et…
- Author: Dublin, Thomas (editor)
Date: 1981 (1993)
Language: en
Find in a Library: 7203495
Find Online: OL9817988M
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From Columbia University Press: "Between 1820 and 1860, tens of thousands of single women streamed from rural New England to find work in the burgeoning factory towns of the region. In 'Farm to Factory' Thomas Dublin has selected five sets of letters…
- Author: Rouillard, Jacques
Date: 1985
Language: fr
Find in a Library: 14129807
Find Online: OL2763322M
Un portrait historique des travailleurs canadiens-français aux États-Unis, dans les usines de la Nouvelle-Angleterre, au prémiere moitié du 20e siècle. Les synthèses historiques de l'immigration et du travail, avec certaines…
- Author: Levasseur, Raymond Luc
Date: 2002
Language: en
Find in a Library: 55030481
Ray Luc Levasseur's statements from the 1989 criminal trial where he represented himself against accusations of racketeering. He places himself and a working-class Franco (Sanford, Maine) upbringing in the course of an American class struggle,…