Such Hardworking People

Download or read book Such Hardworking People written by Franca Iacovetta and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1992 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Such Hardworking People provides a perceptive description of the working-class experiences of immigrants who came to Toronto from southern Italy between 1946 and 1965. Franca Iacovetta focuses on the relations between newly arrived workers and their families, showing that the Italians who came to Toronto during this period were predominantly young, healthy women and men eager to obtain jobs and prepared to make sacrifices in order to secure a more comfortable life for themselves and their children.