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Angels of the workplace : women and the construction of gender relations in the Canadian clothing industry, 1890-1940 /

In this renowned 1997 study of the clothing industry in Canada, Mercedes Steedman examines how the intricate weaving together of the meanings of class, gender, ethnicity, family, and the workplace created a job ghetto for women. Although women comprised a significant majority of garment workers, the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Steedman, Mercedes (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto, Ontario : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Colección:Canadian social history series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1 Introduction: Across the Great Divide
  • 2 The Industrial Fields of Activity: Send Forth Your Daughters
  • 3 Worlds Apart: Women and Unions in the Needle Trades, 1890-1920
  • 4 From Shop-Floor Action to New Unionism: The War Years and After
  • 5 Taking a Stand: Civil War in the Needle Trades
  • 6 'A Real Man's Fight': Clothing Battles in the Depression Years
  • 7 When the Boys Get Together: Orchestrating Consent
  • 8 After the Acts: Setting the Standards, Putting on the Pressure
  • 9 Conclusion: 'This Group of Girls and Men ... '.