Obligation and Opportunity : Single Maritime Women in Boston, 1870-1930.

Intro -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Unfinished History of Maritime Out-migration -- PART ONE: THE VANGUARD -- 1 Changes at Home: The Maritime Economy and the Exodus, 1850-1890 -- 2 Single Maritime Women in Boston, 1880 -- PART TWO: ELDORADO -- 3 The Maritimes in the Early Twentieth Century -- 4 Working in Boston in the Early Twentieth Century -- 5 Living in Boston in the Early Twentieth Century -- Epilogue and Conclusion -- Appendix A: Domestic and Agricultural Production in the Maritimes -- Appendix B: Occupation Tables -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

In the years between Confederation and the Depression nearly 500,000 Maritimers left their homes to work in the United States or other parts of Canada. Why they left and how their departure affected the region's economy have long been debated but, until now, a major component of that exodus has been largely ignored. In Obligation and Opportunity Betsy Beattie addresses this oversight, examining the lives of the tens of thousands of single Maritime women who left to work in Boston between 1870 and 1930.

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