Women's Work, Markets and Economic Development in Nineteenth-Century Ontario /

Women's Work, Markets and Economic Development in Nineteenth-Century Ontario / / Marjorie Griffin Cohen.

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In this study Marjorie Griffin Cohen argues that in research into Ontario?s economic history the emphasis on market activity has obscured the most prevalent type of productive relations in the staple-exporting economy ? the patriarchal relations of production within the family economy.Cohen focuses...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Cohen, Marjorie Griffin,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©1988
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (258 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Capitalist Development, Industrialization, and Women's Work
  • 3. Division of Labour in a Staple-Exporting Economy
  • 4. Farm Women's Labour in Ontario's Staple-Exporting Economy: Early to Mid Nineteenth Century
  • 5. The Changing Conditions of Women in Dairying
  • 6. Women's Paid Work and the Transition to Industrial Capitalism 1850-1911
  • 7. Conclusion
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Backmatter

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