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 /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sangster, Joan, 1952-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©1995.
Series:Studies in gender and history ; 2.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Women > Employment > Ontario > Peterborough > History > 20th century.
Working class women > Ontario > Peterborough > History > 20th century.
Sexual division of labor > Ontario > Peterborough > History > 20th century.
HISTORY > Canada > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Sexual division of labor
Social conditions
Women > Employment
Working class women
Peterborough (Ont.) > Social conditions.
Ontario > Peterborough
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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