1. The Economic, Geographic, and Social Context of Montreal Working-Class Life -- 2. Marriage, Families, and Households -- 3. Men's Wages and the Cost of Living -- 4. Age, Gender, and the Roles of Children -- 5. Managing and Stretching Wages: The Work of Wives -- 6. Managing without a Spouse: Women's Inequality Laid Bare -- Conclusion
Summary
Working Families explores the complex variety of responses of working-class families to their new lives within industrial capitalist society, and offers new ways of looking at the industrial revolution in Canada