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Earning respect : the lives of working women in small-town Ontario, 1920-1960 /

Between 1920 and 1960 wage-earning women in factories and offices experienced dramatic shifts in their employment conditions, the result of both the Depression and the expansion of work opportunities during the Second World War. Earning Respect examines the lives of white and blue-collar women worke...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sangster, Joan, 1952-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©1995.
Series:Studies in gender and history ; 2.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Placing the Story of Women's Work in Context
  • 1. Peterborough: The "Working Man's City"
  • 2. Schooling Girls for Women's Work
  • 3. Packing Muffets for a Living: Working Out the Gendered Division of Labour
  • 4. Women's Work Culture, Women's Identities
  • 5. Maintaining Respectability, Coping with Crises
  • 6. Accommodation at Work
  • 7. Resistance and Unionization
  • 8. Doing Two Jobs: The Wage-Earning Mother in the Postwar Years
  • Conclusion: From Working Daughter to Working Mother
  • Appendix A: Note on the Oral History Sources
  • Appendix B: Tables.