{"product_id":"ideal-surroundings-9780802075758","title":"Ideal Surroundings","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 1920s are seen by historians as a crucial period in the formation of the Canadian working class. In\u003cem\u003e Ideal Surroundings\u003c\/em\u003e, Suzanne Morton looks at a single working-class community as it responded to national and regional changes. Grounded in labour and feminist history, with a strong emphasis on domestic life, this analysis focuses on the relationship between gender ideals and the actual experience of different family members. \u003cbr\u003eThe setting is Richmond Heights, a working-class suburb of Halifax that was constructed following the 1917 explosion that devastated a large section of the city. The Halifax Relief Commission, specially formed to respond to this incident, generated a unique set of historical records that provides an unusually intimate glimpse of domestic life. Drawing on these and other archives, Morton uncovers many critical challenges to working-class ideals. The male world-view in particular were seriously destabilized as economic transformation and unemployment","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359184781655,"sku":"9780802075758","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780802075758.jpg?v=1754123920","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ideal-surroundings-9780802075758","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}