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The gender of breadwinners : women, men, and change in two industrial towns, 1880-1950 /
This is a story of two Ontario towns, Hanover and Paris, that grew in many parallel ways. They were about the same size, and both were primarily one-industry towns. But Hanover was a furniture-manufacturing centre; most of its workers were men, drawn from a community of ethnic German artisans and ag...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto, Ont. :
University of Toronto Press,
1990.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Introduction
- PART ONE
- 1 Gender, culture, and labour recruitment
- 2 The politics of protection
- 3 When is knitting women's work?
- 4 Domesticity and mill families
- 5 Womanly militance, neighbourly wrath
- PART TWO
- 6 As Christ the carpenter
- 7 Manliness, craftsmanship, and scientific management
- 8 For men and girls: the politics and experience of gendered wage work
- 9 Single fellows and family men
- 10 Union men
- Conclusion
- NOTE ON METHOD
- NOTES
- PICTURE CREDITS
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