Sweatshop Strife : : Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Jewish Labour Movement of Toronto, 1900-1939 /

Sweatshop Strife : : Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Jewish Labour Movement of Toronto, 1900-1939 / / Ruth Frager.

In the first half of the twentieth century, many of Toronto's immigrant Jews eked out a living in the needle-trade sweatshops of Spadina Avenue. In response to their expliotation on the shop floor, immigrant Jewish garment workers built one of the most advanced sections of the Canadian and Amer...

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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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Frager, Ruth,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©1992
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (330 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations Used in the Text
  • A Note on the Use of Yiddish
  • Introduction
  • 1. A Mound of Ashes in the Golden Land. The Setting
  • 2. Pulling in One Direction. The Development of Jewish Working-Class Activism
  • 3. Uncle Moses and the Slaves. Relations between Jewish Manufacturers and Jewish Workers
  • 4. 'Mixing with People on Spadina'. The Tense Relations between Non-Jewish Workers and Jewish Workers
  • 5. 'Better Material to Exploit'. The Barriers to Women's Participation in the Labour Movement
  • 6. 'Just as a Worker'. The Dearth of Female-Oriented Strategies
  • 7. Doing Things That Men Do. Women Activists in the Needle Trades
  • 8 Pulling Apart. Divisions over Political Ideology
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index
  • Picture Credits

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