5 “I Won’t Be a Slave!”: Finnish Domestics in Canada, 1911–30

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures and Tables vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction: Writing about Finnish Canadian Experiences 1
6. The Finnish Contribution to Early Canadian Socialist Organizations 29
7. Matti Kurikka and the Utopian Socialist Settlement of Sointula, British Columbia 51
8. Finnish Canadian Soldiers in the First World War 68
9. Wrestling, Immigration, and Working-Class Culture: The Finns of the Thunder Bay District before 1939 102
10. “I Won’t Be a Slave!”: Finnish Domestics in Canada, 1911–30 121
11. “Dear Jussi-setä”: Generation, Language, and Community in the Youth Page of Vapaus, 1945–60 143
12. Terveisiä: A Century of Finnish Immigrant Letters from Canada 165
13. Cookbooks for Upstairs: Ethnicity, Class, and Gender in Perspective 185
14. From Bush to Bay Street: The Finnish Community of Thunder Bay as Memories, Narratives, and Experiences 206
15. Afterword 226
16. Contributors 230
17. Index 232