Women's work, markets, and economic development in nineteenth-century Ontario

Women's work, markets, and economic development in nineteenth-century Ontario /

Cohen focuses on the productive relations in the family and the significance of women's labour to the process of capital accumulation in both the capitalist sphere and independent commodity production.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Cohen, Marjorie Griffin, 1944- (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1988.
Series:	State and economic life ; 11.
Subjects:	1800-1899 Geschichte 1800-1911. Women > Employment > Ontario > History > 19th century. Sexual division of labor > Ontario > History > 19th century. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor. POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations. Economic history Sexual division of labor Women > Employment Frauenarbeit Ontario > Economic conditions > 19th century. Ontario > Conditions économiques > 19e siècle. Ontario History
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Table of Contents:

Introduction
Capitalist development, industrialization, and women's work
Division of labour in a staple-exporting economy
Farm women's labour in Ontario's staple-exporting economy: early to mid nineteenth century
The changing conditions of women in dairying
Women's paid work and the transition to industrial capitalism 1850-1911
Conclusion
Appendix.