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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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Autor principal: Steedman, Mercedes (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto, Ontario : Oxford University Press, 2008.
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505 0 |a 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 ...'. 
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