Earning Respect : : The Lives of Working Women in Small Town Ontario, 1920-1960 /

Earning Respect : : The Lives of Working Women in Small Town Ontario, 1920-1960 / / Joan Sangster.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Sangster, Joan,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©1995
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Studies in Gender and History
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Physical Description:1 online resource (334 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • 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
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • PICTURE CREDITS
  • INDEX

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