Breadwinning Daughters : : Young Working Women in a Depression-Era City, 1929-1939 / / Katrina Srigley.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Srigley, Katrina ,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)

As one of the most difficult periods of the twentieth century, the Great Depression left few Canadians untouched. Using more than eighty interviews with women who lived and worked in Toronto in the 1930s, Breadwinning Daughters examines the consequences of these years for women in their homes and workplaces, and in the city's court rooms and dance halls.In this insightful account, Katrina Srigley argues that young women were central to the labour market and family economies of Depression-era Toronto. Oral histories give voice to women from a range of cultural and economic backgrounds, and challenge readers to consider how factors such as race, gender, class, and marital status shaped women's lives and influenced their job options, family arrangements, and leisure activities. Breadwinning Daughters brings to light previously forgotten and unstudied experiences and illustrates how women found various ways to negotiate the burdens and joys of the 1930s.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Young Working Women in a Depression-Era World -- Chapter 2. Breadwinning Girls and Substitute Mothers: Negotiating Family Responsibilities -- Chapter 3. Young Women's Job Options in an Urban Labour Market in the 1930s -- Chapter 4. Where Is a Woman Safe? City Spaces, Workplaces, and Households -- Chapter 5. The Rough 'n' Ready Spinsters' Club: Working Women's Leisure and Respectability -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index