Unemployment, living standards, and the working-class family in urban Canada in 1901

History of the Family

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 229-254

  Sager, Eric W ^a   Baskerville, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

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EID: 0031542274     PISSN: 1081602X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1081-602X(97)90014-2     Document Type: Article

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