Seasons of labor: Family, work, and land in a nineteenth-century Nova Scotia shipbuilding community

History of the Family

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 485-527

  McCann, Larry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.1016/S1081-602X(99)00026-3     Document Type: Article

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