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- Title
Making Home Pay: Italian and Scottish Boardinghouse Keepers in Barre, 1880-1918.
- Authors
Richards, Susan L.
- Abstract
Examines Italian and Scottish women's strategies in establishing or supplementing family income in Barre, Vermont, during 1880-1918. Between 45% and 51% of Barre women took in boarders during the period, compared to a national average of around 1%. The level of demand for lodging, given the large number of single men working in the granite mining industry, offered continuous opportunity for employment. The two ethnic groups had different additional ways of coping with economic uncertainty. Italian women supplemented their earnings illegally by selling liquor. This caused conflict between the Italian community and the larger Barre population. Scottish women took advantage of mutual aid association practices to create the Ladies of Clan Gordon, which offered insurance to cover the loss of income due to illness and to provide a stipend on death for support of their families or for a decent burial.
- Publication
Vermont History, 2006, Vol 74, Issue 1, p48
- ISSN
0042-4161
- Publication type
Article