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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Boudreau, Michael S. (Michael Scott), 1967-     Subjects     Martin, Ida, 1907-2004 -- Diaries.     Working class women -- New Brunswick -- Saint John -- Diaries.     Housewives -- New Brunswick -- Saint John -- Diaries.     Diarists -- New Brunswick -- Saint John -- Diaries.     Saint John (N.B.) -- Biography.     Saint John (N.B.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Boudreau, Michael S. (Michael Scott), 1967-       by title:      Just the usual work ...       by call number:      971.532 B756j     Search the Web     Boudreau, Michael S. (Michael Scott), 1967-     Martin, Ida, 1907-2004 -- Diaries.     Working class women -- New Brunswick -- Saint John -- Diaries.     Housewives -- New Brunswick -- Saint John -- Diaries.     Diarists -- New Brunswick -- Saint John -- Diaries.     Saint John (N.B.) -- Biography.     Saint John (N.B.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.       MARC Display

Just the usual work : the social worlds of Ida Martin, working-class diarist / Michael Boudreau and Bonnie Huskins. by Boudreau, Michael S. (Michael Scott), 1967- McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021. Call #: 971.532 B756j Subjects Martin, Ida, 1907-2004 -- Diaries.   Working class women -- New Brunswick -- Saint John -- Diaries.   Housewives -- New Brunswick -- Saint John -- Diaries.   Diarists -- New Brunswick -- Saint John -- Diaries.   Saint John (N.B.) -- Biography.   Saint John (N.B.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century. ISBN:  9780228005490 (pbk) 9780228005483 (cloth) Description:  xii, 176 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary:  "Born in 1907, Ida Martin spent most of her life in Saint John, New Brunswick. She married a longshoreman named Allan Robert Martin in 1932 and they had one daughter. In the years that followed, Ida had a busy and varied life, full of work, caring for her family, and living her faith. Through it all, Ida found time to keep a daily diary from 1945 to 1992. Bonnie Huskins is Ida Martin's granddaughter. In Just the Usual Work, she and Michael Boudreau draw on Ida's diaries, family memories, and the history of Atlantic Canada to shed light on the everyday life of a working-class housewife during a period of significant social and political change. They examine Ida's observations about the struggles of making ends meet on a longshoreman's salary, the labour confrontations at the Port of Saint John, the role of automobiles in the family economy, the importance of family, faith, and political engagement, and her experience of widowhood and growing old. Ida Martin's diaries were often read by members of her family to reconstruct and relive their shared histories. By sharing the p. of her diaries with a wider audience, Just the Usual Work keeps Ida's memory alive while continuing her abiding commitment to documenting the past and finding meaning in the rhythms of everyday life."--Publisher. Genre:  Diaries. Other authors:  Huskins, Bonnie, 1963- Martin, Ida, 1907-2004. Diaries. Selections. Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 971.532 B756j Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Nonfiction 971.532 B756j Adult books Adult Display 4 Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Nonfiction 971.532 B756j Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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