Making a Middle Class: Student Life in English Canada during the Thirties
ISBN: 9780773562424
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / McGill-Queen''s University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: College students -- Canada -- History -- 20th century; Universities and colleges -- Social aspects -- Canada -- 20th century;

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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