TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barrett,Stanley
TI  - Paradise: Class, Commuters, and Ethnicity in Rural Ontario 
T2  - Heritage
SN  - 9780802072320
AV  - HN110.O6 B37 1994eb
U1  - 307.72/09713 20
PY  - 1994///]
CY  - Toronto : 
PB  - University of Toronto Press, 
KW  - Social classes
KW  - Ontario
KW  - Sociology, Rural
KW  - Urban-rural migration
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - restricted access
N2  - What was life like in the 1950s in small communities in Ontario? Lower-class and upper-class residents might have different memories of those days, but on one thing they would agree: it is a much different world in rural Ontario today. The old guard has lost most of its power, displaced partly by 'big brother' in the form of bureaucracy, and new comers from the city in search of affordable housing-even if it means commuting daily to work. Unlike their British-origin predecessors, the newcomers who have begun to appear in the countryside represent a wide range of ethnic and economic backgrounds.Paradise concentrates on the transformed class system of one community in rural Ontario. In a comparison of the decade following the First World War and the 1980s, Stanley R. Barrett analyses the changing face and structure of a town as it has had to adapt to modern social and economic realities. Particular attention is paid to the phenomenon of the commuter in search of affordable housing and the influx of immigrants of varied ethnic backgrounds, and the interaction between these newcomers and long-term residents. What is striking is just how massive the changes in small-town Ontario have been since the Second World War-to the extent of almost obliterating long-assumed distinctions between rural and urban society
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ER  -