A sense of their duty
Subtitle: middle-class formation in Victorian Ontario towns
By: Andrew C. Holman
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Montreal; Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
Subjects: Middle class -- Ontario -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies; Goderich (Ont. : Township) -- Social conditions -- 19th century; Galt (Ont.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Genres: Case studies
Description: "Using the towns of Galt and Goderich as case studies, Andrew Holman shows how population growth, industrial change, and the expansion of government contributed to profound changes to Ontario's social structure between the 1850s and the 1890s with an identifiable and self-identified middle class emerging between the idle rich and the working class. Businessmen, professionals, and white-collar workers developed a new sense of authority that extended beyond the workplace, and local electors, breadwinners, and members of voluntary associations and reform societies set middle class standards of behavior that enjoyed currency and relevance throughout the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-238) and index