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  • Author: Waldron, FlorenceMae

Date: 2005 winter

Publication: Journal of American Ethnic History

Volume: 24

Language: en

Find in a Library: 366000054

Essay on women's labor in French Canadian immigrant communities in New England. Explores and qualifies the idea that, for women, migration could be equated with social and economic liberation. From the text: "The ways in which these women and girls…

  • Author: VIcero, Ralph

Date: 1971

Publication: Recherches sociographiques

Volume: 12

Language:

Find in a Library: 12180837

Un essai qui examine le matériel historique et scolaire qui est disponible sur les canadiens français qui ont voyagé aux Etats-Unis avant 1900. Le deuxieme partie, "Le recensement," est une examination d'un de ceux matériels specifiques…

  • Author: Takai, Yukari

Date: 2001 spring

Publication: Labour/Le Travail

Language: en

Find in a Library: 361810676

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An analysis of single French-Canadian women workers in Lowell, Massachusetts, Takai's piece attempts to show the contributions of this female population to their households and to the local economy at the beginning of the twentieth century.

  • Author: Silvia, Philip Thomas, Jr.

Date: 1976 summer

Publication: International Migration Review

Volume: 10

Language: en

Find in a Library: 484990257

Brief essay on the reciprocal impacts of immigration on the textile industry and labor organization in Fall River, Massachusetts, at the beginning of the 20th century. The birth of the immigrant textile labor force. Emphasis on French-Canadian…

  • Author: Scherzer, Kenneth A.

Date: 1989 February

Publication: Urban Studies

Volume: 26

Language:

Find in a Library: 360758768

Brief essay on the Depression-era local economics of the highly industrialized and densely populated Massachusetts town of Fall River. Governmental maneuverings and business restructuring in response to the great 1930s economic downturn.

  • Author: Richard, Mark Paul

Date: 1998

Publication: Histoire sociale/Social History

Volume: 61

Language: en

Find in a Library: 207204381

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From the author: "While many studies have focused on the migration, settlement, and community formation of French-Canadian immigrants in the United States, we know little about the history of their Franco-American descendants in the twentieth…

  • Author: Ramirez, Bruno
  • Author: Lamarre, Jean

Date: 1985-11 (winter)

Publication: Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française

Volume: 38

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 1764125

Des notes de recherche sur l'immigrant "non seulement comme historique se heurtant aux exigences de la société d'accueil au moment de son insertion, mais aussi comme individu qui quitte un lieu précis en réponse a des besoins particuliers…

  • Author: Ramirez, Bruno

Date: 1992 September

Publication: Journal of American History

Volume: 79

Language: en

Find in a Library: 483420594

Brief essay on the discipline of United States history in Canada, the influence of American perspectives on Canadian historiography of the US, and how attitudes toward cross-boundary historiography change over time. Ramirez takes a semi-biographical…

  • Author: Ramirez, Bruno

Date: 1983-03 (spring)

Publication: Labor/Le Travail

Volume: 11

Language: en

Find in a Library: 317511047

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Introduction to an analysis of the French Canadian emigration/immigration period from 1900 to 1929 that, according to Ramirez, suffers from a lack of attention paid to it. Ramirez conducts his exploration through the lens of the New England cotton…

  • Author: Podea, Iris Saunders

Date: 1950-09

Publication: The New England Quarterly

Volume: 23

Language: en

Find in a Library: 480428964

Brief 1950 essay on French-Canadian migration from agriculturally-failing Québec to the New England states during the period of North American industrialization, from the Civil War and after. Also featured in Leonard Dinnerstein's "The Aliens: A…

  • Author: MacDonald, William

Date: 1898-04

Publication: The Quarterly Journal of Economics

Volume: 12

Language: en

Find in a Library: 479765552

Introduction to French-Canadian immigration to New England in the second half of the nineteenth century. Observations on distribution of population by town and the organization of Catholic parishes. Written by a professor at Bowdoin College,…

  • Author: LeBlanc, Andre

Date: 1987

Publication: Labour/Le Travail

Volume: 20

Language: en

Find in a Library: 317511047

Review of Jacques Rouillard's text, "Ah les Etats!: les travailleurs canadiens-français dans l'industrie textile de la Nouvelle-Angleterre d'après le témoignage des derniers migrants" (Boreal Express, 1985) couched in a brief reflection on…

  • Author: Lamphere, Louise

Date: 1986 February

Volume: 13

Language: en

Find in a Library: 482347183

From the author: "The increased participation of women in the paid labor force in the 20th-century United States has been marked by a transition from an era of 'working daughters' to one of 'working mothers.' Using data from a New England industrial…

  • Author: Dexter, Robert Cloutman

Date: 1923

Thesis Type: Ph. D., Sociology

Institution: Clark University

Language: en

Find in a Library: 6634661

Early 20th-century doctoral dissertation on some scientific observations of French-Canadian immigrants to New England. Reflects certain attitudes toward stereotyped ethnic immigrants to the United States between 1830 and 1920.

  • Author: Madore, Nelson (editor)
  • Author: Rodrigue, Barry H. (editor)
  • Author: Miller, Corinna (editor)
  • Author: Hébert, Chase (editor)
  • Author: Beaupré, Normand (French language editor)

Date: 2007

Language: en

Find in a Library: 131062883

Celebrated collection of essays, stories, poems, songs, art, and other works on the history of Franco American people and their communities in Maine. Features the following writings by their respective authors, in order of appearance: Foreword by…

  • Author: Hareven, Tamara K.

Date: 1985 automne

Publication: Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française

Volume: 39

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 1764125

L'auteure de "Amoskeag," Tamara Hareven écrit un pièce sur les bourses d'études, ou un historigraphie, de la famille aux Etats-Unis. Elle la comprend cette histoire comme partie de la nouvelle histoire sociale: un mouvement académique du…

  • Author: Hansen, Marcus L.

Date: 1929-10

Publication: The New England Quarterly

Volume: 2

Language: en

Find in a Library: 480337610

Narrative and descriptive short history of immigration to the United States between 1815 and 1914. Focuses primarily on New England, and emphasizes the presence of Irish, French Canadian, and German newcomers, the means of their arrival, and the…

  • Author: Gerstle, Gary

Date: 1978 April

Publication: Radical History Review

Language: en

Find in a Library: 45456839

A period history of a Belgian and Franco-American independent textile union in the mills of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, and the impact of this sort of independent worker organization on the ethnic communities of that city. "What follows," says the…

  • Author: Frenette, Yves

Date: 1989

Publication: Historical Papers/Communications historiques

Volume: 24

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 28280811

Adapté d'une plus longe forme (1988). D'Erudit: "Le présent article a pour sujet la genèse d'une communauté canadienne-française en Nouvelle-Angleterre, celle de Lewiston, Maine, avant 1880. L'auteur décrit d'abord la localité…

  • Author: Early, Frances H.

Date: 1977

Publication: Labour/Le Travail

Volume: 2

Language: en

Find in a Library: 317511047

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Brief essay on quality of working-class life in Lowell, Massachusetts at the end of the nineteenth century, during a period of heavy emigration from French Canada. Includes information on census research concerning French Canadians of that place and…

  • Author: Doty, C. Stewart

Date: 2000 Spring

Publication: American Review of Canadian Studies

Volume: 30

Language: en

Find in a Library: 197430696

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Suggestions of potential topics for future research on Franco Americans. Includes literature, journalism, politics, textile labor history, religious history, and more. From the author: "Focuses on the history and literature of French Americans of the…

  • Author: Creveling, Harold Franklin

Date: 1955-10

Publication: Economic Geography

Volume: 31

Language: en

Find in a Library: 483109943

Brief description of a sociological method used to "investigat[e] the pattern of cultural groups" in Worcester, Massachusetts. Based on the research conducted from Creveling's doctoral dissertation, "The pattern of cultural groups in Worcester"…

  • Author: Christie, Nancy

Date: 2002 Fall

Publication: Labour/Le Travail

Volume: 50

Language: en

Find in a Library: 317511047

Article exploring how feminist historiography impacts interpretations of the rise of labour in the US and Canada, recognizing the divisions of gender that are fixed along the North American process of industrialization. From the text: "It is the…

  • Author: Allen, James P.

Date: 1974 Autumn

Publication: Acadiensis

Volume: 9

Language: en

Find in a Library: 1670823

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A study of Franco Americans in Maine with respect to geography: movement, placement, population growth, and cultural stability. From the author: "The major purpose of this paper is to depict the geographic characteristics of Maine's Franco-Americans…

  • Author: Allen, James P.

Date: 1972 July

Publication: Geographical Review

Volume: 62

Language: en

Find in a Library: 483269409

Article on the migrations of French Canadians in Central and Southern Maine to their precise places of departure in Québec. Includes maps that illustrate migration fields and indicate concentrations of Maine Franco Americans. From the author:…