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Title	Passing the time : the lives of women in a northern industrial town
Author	Parsons, Linda Ann, 1957-
Description	Thesis (M.A.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1987. Sociology
Date	1986
Pagination	viii, 329 leaves :\|bill. (chiefly tables).
Subject	Company towns--Newfoundland and Labrador--Labrador--Social conditions; Women--Newfoundland and Labrador--Labrador City--Social conditions; Labor mobility--Social aspects--Newfoundland and Labrador--Labrador City; Migration, Internal--Newfoundland and Labrador--Labrador City--Sex difference
Degree	M.A.
Degree Grantor	Memorial University of Newfoundland. Dept. of Sociology
Discipline	Sociology
Language	Eng
Spatial Coverage	Canada--Newfoundland and Labrador--Labrador Canada--Newfoundland and Labrador--LabradorCity
Notes	Bibliography: leaves 308-321.
Abstract	Newfoundlanders are generally familiar with both the idea of working in the north and with towns built by resource-extracting companies to house workers and their families. Not as well known is what the experience of migration to the north and life in such a single-industry town is like, particularly for women. This thesis examines that experience, presenting data collected during a two month period of interviews with a sample of female residents from Labrador City. -- Relying heavily on a phenomenological tradition of ethnography, the author attempted to allow her respondents to define the aspects of their lives which were of salient importance to their own sense of well-being. This data was then organized and interpreted to bring out the features of migration and subsequent residence in Labrador City which are particularly crucial for women's happiness and to emphasize the strategies which they use to cope with their problems. -- The thesis devotes attention, in particular, to early efforts to recruit women to Labrador City, to female migration experience and its motivation, and to women's problems related to the demographic, economic and even climatic features of life in a northern, single-industry town. - Women have quite different experiences in northern industrial towns than do men. This is the focus of the following text, which examines the attractions and difficulties women have found in living in Labrador City and the solutions they've devised for coping.
Type	Text
Resource Type	Electronic thesis or dissertation
Format	Image/jpeg; Application/pdf
Source	Paper copy kept in the Centre for Newfoundland Studies, Memorial University Libraries
Local Identifier	75414519
Rights	The author retains copyright ownership and moral rights in this thesis. Neither the thesis nor substantial extracts from it may be printed or otherwise reproduced without the author's permission.
Collection	Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Scanning Status	Completed
PDF File	(125.05 MB) -- http://collections.mun.ca/PDFs/theses/Parsons_LindaAnn.pdf
CONTENTdm file name	40836.cpd