RURAL BOOKS: CATHARINE A. WILSON

BEING NEIGHBOURS: Cooperative Work and Rural Culture, 1830ā€“1960 šŸ“š

December 19, 2022

This is the second in a series of conversations with Rural Authors and Rural Books. Catharine A. Wilson

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*Catharine and I are working on a project, bringing short 'Rural Canadian History Moments' to you in audio form. If you'd like to partner with us, please click the link below.

Throughout history, farm families have shared work and equipment with their neighbours to complete labour-intensive, time-sensitive, and time-consuming tasks. They benefitted materially and socially from these voluntary, flexible, loosely structured networks of reciprocal assistance, making neighbourliness a vital but overlooked aspect of agricultural change. Being Neighbours takes you into the heart of neighbourhood - the set of people near and surrounding the family - through an examination of work bees in southern Ontario from 1830 to 1960.

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