Preface: The Word on the Street -- Introduction: The Emergence of Liquor Control Bureaucracy in Ontario -- Liquor Control Bureaucracy and the Mechanisms of Governance -- The Public Life of Liquor, 1927-34 -- Idealistic Form and Realistic Function: Restructuring Public Drinking Space -- Hearing the Voices: Community Input and the Reshaping of Public Drinking Behaviour -- "As a Result of Representations Made": The (Dys)function of Patronage in the LCBO's Regulatory Activities -- Restructuring Recreation in the Drinking Space -- Women, Children, and the Family in the Public Drinking Space -- "Their Medley of Tongues and Eternal Jangle": Regulating the Racial and Ethnic Outsider -- Public Drinking and the Challenges of War -- Conclusion -- Appendix: The Communities
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-284) and index