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Item Details
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EARNING RESPECT
THE LIVES OF WORKING WOMEN IN SMALL TOWN ONTARIO, 1920-1960 |
| By: |
Joan Sangster |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£42.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0802005187 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780802005182 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
24 May, 1995 |
| Series: |
Studies in Gender and History |
| Pages: |
334 |
| Description: |
Earning Respect examines the lives of white and blue-collar women workers in Peterborough during this period and notes the emerging changes in their work lives, as working daughters gradually became working mothers. |
| Synopsis: |
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 workers in Peterborough during this period and notes the emerging changes in their work lives, as working daughters gradually became working mothers. Joan Sangster focuses in particular on four large workplaces, examining the gendered division of labour, women's work culture, and the forces that encouraged women's accommodation and resistance on the job. She also connects women's wage work to their social and familial lives and to the larger community context, exploring wage-earning women's 'identities,' their attempts to cope with economic and family crises, the gendered definitions of working-class respectability, and the nature of paternalism in a small Ontario manufacturing city. Sangster draws upon oral histories as well as archival research as she traces the construction of class and gender relations in 'small town' industrialized Ontario in the mid-twentieth century.She uses this local study to explore key themes and theoretical debate in contemporary women's and working-class history. Winner of the 1995-1996 Harold Adams Innis Prize award by the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada. |
| Publication: |
Canada |
| Imprint: |
University of Toronto Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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