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. Particular attention is paid to the phenomenon of the commuter in search of affordable housing and the influx of immigrants of varied ethnic backgrounds, and the interaction between these newcomers and long-term residents. What is striking is just how massive the changes in small-town Ontario have been since the Second World War—to the extent of almost obliterating long-assumed distinctions between rural and urban society.
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. Particular attention is paid to the phenomenon of the commuter in search of affordable housing and the influx of immigrants of varied ethnic backgrounds, and the interaction between these newcomers and long-term residents. What is striking is just how massive the changes in small-town Ontario have been since the Second World War—to the extent of almost obliterating long-assumed distinctions between rural and urban society.
Paradise: Class, Commuters, and Ethnicity in Rural Ontario
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Paradise: Class, Commuters, and Ethnicity in Rural Ontario
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780802072320 |
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| Publisher: | University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division |
| Publication date: | 06/03/1994 |
| Series: | Heritage Series |
| Edition description: | 2nd ed. |
| Pages: | 330 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.01(w) x 8.94(h) x 0.94(d) |