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Author | : John E. Zucchi |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1988-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0773561684 |
Italians began migrating to Toronto in large numbers toward the end of the nineteenth century. Many of these immigrants were peasants who arrived in the new world with only a vague sense of nationality. In Italy, their identity had been primarily connected with the villages that were their homes and only secondarily with regions and country. In Toronto, as in other North American cities, a more emphatic sense of Italian nationalism developed. John Zucchi identifies the distinguishing factors which led to the formation of a strong, nationalistic Italian community in Toronto and to the shift in loyalty from the local level to the national. These two elements of the immigrants' identity are dealt with in each chapter, so that while analysing the internal history of an ethnic group in a Canadian city, Zucchi also details the histories of many Italian village families.
Author | : Nicholas De Maria Harney |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1998-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780802080998 |
Today's Italian-Canadians face different images than previous generations. An exploration of the reproduction of cultural heritage in a global economy of rapid international communication.
Author | : Franca Iacovetta |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 1992-03-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0773563156 |
Iacovetta examines the changes many had to face during the transition from peasant worker in an under-developed, rural economy to wage-earner in an urban, industrial society. Their experiences in Canada, she reveals, were shaped by class, gender, and ethnicity as well as familial responsibilities, government policies, and racism. In addition to conducting numerous interviews, Iacovetta has drawn on recent scholarship in immigration, family, labour studies, oral history, and women's history. Although both women and men struggled and were exploited, Iacovetta shows that they found innovative ways to recreate cherished rituals and customs from their homeland and managed to derive a sense of dignity and honour from the labours they performed.
Author | : John E. Zucchi |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780773507821 |
Italians in Toronto provides an insightful account of how village and regional groups transplanted their communities into the city that is now one of the largest expatriate centres for Italians in the world. The history of Italian migration to Canada is
Author | : Stefano Agnoletto |
Publisher | : Trade Unions. Past, Present and Future |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Construction industry |
ISBN | : 9783034317733 |
After World War II, hundreds of thousands of Italians emigrated to Toronto. This book describes their labour, business, social and cultural history as they settled in their new home. It addresses fundamental issues that impacted both them and the city, including ethnic economic niching, unionization, urban proletarianization and migrants' entrepreneurship. In addressing these issues the book focuses on the role played by a specific economic sector in enabling immigrants to find their place in their new host society. More specifically, this study looks at the residential sector of the construction industry that, between the 1950s and the 1970s, represented a typical economic ethnic niche for newly arrived Italians. In fact, tens of thousands of Italian men found work in this sector as labourers, bricklayers, carpenters, plasterers and cement finishers, while hundreds of others became contractors, subcontractors or small employers in the same industry. This book is about these real people. It gives voice to a community formed both by entrepreneurial subcontractors who created companies out of nothing and a large group of exploited workers who fought successfully for their rights. In this book you will find stories of inventiveness and hope as well as of oppression and despair. The purpose is to offer an original approach to issues arising from the economic and social history of twentieth-century mass migrations.
Author | : Jordan Stanger-Ross |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2010-01-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0226770761 |
Despite their twin positions as two of North America’s most iconic Italian neighborhoods, South Philly and Toronto’s Little Italy have functioned in dramatically different ways since World War II. Inviting readers into the churches, homes, and businesses at the heart of these communities, Staying Italian reveals that daily experience in each enclave created two distinct, yet still Italian, ethnicities. As Philadelphia struggled with deindustrialization, Jordan Stanger-Ross shows, Italian ethnicity in South Philly remained closely linked with preserving turf and marking boundaries. Toronto’s thriving Little Italy, on the other hand, drew Italians together from across the wider region. These distinctive ethnic enclaves, Stanger-Ross argues, were shaped by each city’s response to suburbanization, segregation, and economic restructuring. By situating malleable ethnic bonds in the context of political economy and racial dynamics, he offers a fresh perspective on the potential of local environments to shape individual identities and social experience.
Author | : A. V. Spada |
Publisher | : Ottawa, [Italo-Canadian Ethnic and Historical Research Center?] |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Italians |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Bruno Ramirez |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Canada |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Arrigo Petacco |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2005-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0802039219 |
Based on previously unavailable archival documents and oral accounts from people who were there, Petacco reveals the events and exposes the Italian government's mishandling - and then official silence on - the situation.
Author | : Suzanne Ziegler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Acculturation |
ISBN | : |