 | Particular Condition in Life: Self-Employment and Social Mobility in Mid-Victorian Brantford, Ontario Subjects: Social mobility -- Ontario -- Brantford -- History -- 19th century; Brantford (Ont.) -- Social conditions -- History -- 19th century; Labor market -- Ontario -- Brantford -- History -- 19th century; David Burley offers a new perspective on industrial capitalism and class formation in Canada by focusing on the rise of the bourgeoisie rather than the rise of the working class. Using the town of Brantford, Ontario, as his model, Burley examines how industrialization brought about a decline in self-employment (the measure of a man's success according to Victorian values) and a restructuring of traditional concepts of wealth, credit and debt, and success and failure. |
