Making a Middle Class: Student Life in English Canada during the Thirties

Paul Axelrod

Published by McGill-Queen's University Press 1990

Making a Middle Class

Student Life in English Canada during the Thirties

Paul Axelrod

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780773562424

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About this book

Universities of the 1930s, declared one observer, were "loafing places for rich men's sons." In Making a Middle Class Paul Axelrod challenges this popular perception, arguing that while students who attended university during the Great Depression were relatively privileged, the majority were neither terribly affluent nor completely sheltered from hard economic times. Nor were they all men.

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"[This book] is the best comparative analysis of Canadian post-secondary education available ... Its cogent analysis, highly sensitive to gender differences, will become an essential bench-mark for any future investigations of Canadian universities and student life." Keith Walden, Department of History, Trent University.

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Front Matter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Youth, University, and the Canadian Middle Class Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	6
Who Went to University? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	20
Academic Culture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
Professional Culture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
Associational Life: The Extra-curriculum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	98
Politics and Social Change: The Student Movement Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	128
Making a Middle Class Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
A Note on Methodology and Sources Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
Classification of Occupations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	174
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Language: English
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 304

eBook

Published: October 1, 1990
ISBN: 9780773562424