The Gender of Breadwinners : : Women, Men and Change in Two Industrial Towns, 1880-1950 / / Joy Parr.
This is a story of two Ontario towns, Hanover and Paris, that grew in many parallel ways. They were about the same size, and both were primarily one-industry towns. But Hanover was a furniture-manufacturing centre; most of its workers were men, drawn from a community of ethnic German artisans and ag...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] ©1998 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (314 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART ONE
- Chapter One. Gender, culture, and labour recruitment
- Chapter Two. The politics of protection
- Chapter Three. When is knitting women's work?
- Chapter Four. Domesticity and mill families
- Chapter Five. Womanly militance, neighbourly wrath
- PART TWO
- Chapter Six. As Christ the carpenter
- Chapter Seven. Manliness, craftsmanship, and scientific management
- Chapter Eight. For men and girls: the politics and experience of gendered wage work
- Chapter Nine. Single fellows and family men
- Chapter Ten. Union men
- Conclusion
- Note on method
- Notes
- Picture credits
- Select bibliography
- Index