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A Study of Clothing Budgets on a Minimum Adequate Standard for a Family Agency in Montreal, 1947-1948
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A Study of Clothing Budgets on a Minimum Adequate Standard for a Family Agency in Montreal, 1947-1948
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| Abstract |
Prior to writing this thesis in 1949, the author worked for seven years as a social service worker with Montreal's Jewish Family Welfare Department. During those years, she observed that it became more and more apparent that the agency's system of providing clothing to its clients was a weak link in its chain of services. Many of the clients felt it degrading to be deprived of an opportunity to make a choice. Others were of the opinion that given the same amount of money spent by the agency they could have shopped to their own individual taste and made better investments. She also noted that social case workers were also conscious of the clients' emotional conflict which evolved from the necessity of clients visiting the agency's clothing room to collect the needed items. Many clients were fearful of meeting friends or neighbours from whom they wished to conceal their association with the agency.
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research report
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McGill University
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Montreal
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1949
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80p.
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en
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Spector, Esther. “A Study of Clothing Budgets on a Minimum Adequate Standard for a Family Agency in Montreal, 1947-1948.” Research report, McGill University, 1949. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/thesescanada/vol2/QMM/TC-QMM-124438.pdf.
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