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The experiences of working women are explored in Women, Work, and Place. Tied together by the conceptual theme "place matters," the essays emphasize the social, cultural, economic, historical, and geographical contexts in which women work, and the effect of specific conditions on women...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kobayashi, Audrey Lynn, 1951- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queens University Press, ©1994.
Colección:CEL - Canadian Publishers Collection.
Temas:
Women > Employment.
Women > Employment > History.
Femmes > Travail.
Femmes > Travail > Histoire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gender Studies.
Women > Employment
Vrouwen.
Arbeid.
Stedelijke economie.
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : placing women and work / Audrey Kobayashi [and others]
  • Engendering change : women's work and the development of urban-social theory / Linda Peake
  • Women's workplaces : the impact of technological change on working-class women in the home and in the workplace in nineteenth-century Montreal / Bettina Bradbury
  • For the sake of the children : Japanese/Canadian workers/mothers / Audrey Kobayashi
  • Womanly militance, neighbourly wrath : new scripts for old roles in a small-town textile strike / Joy Parr
  • Women, work, and place : the Canadian context / Sylvia Gold
  • "No skill beyond manual dexterity involved" : gender and the construction of skill in the East London clothing industry / Alison Kaye
  • Gender and occupational restructuring in Montreal in the 1970s / Damaris Rose and Paul Villeneuve
  • Bargaining and balancing : women's waged work as an adjustment strategy in U.S. households / Susan Christopherson
  • Gentrification, work, and gender identity / Liz Bondi.

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