| Description |
1 online resource (347 pages) |
| Series |
Canadian Social History Series |
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Canadian social history series
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| Contents |
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction: Across the Great Divide -- 2 The Industrial Fields of Activity: Send Forth Your Daughters -- 3 Worlds Apart: Women and Unions in the Needle Trades, 1890-1920 -- 4 From Shop-Floor Action to New Unionism: The War Years and After -- 5 Taking a Stand: Civil War in the Needle Trades -- 6 'A Real Man's Fight': Clothing Battles in the Depression Years -- 7 When the Boys Get Together: Orchestrating Consent -- 8 After the Acts: Setting the Standards, Putting on the Pressure -- 9 Conclusion: 'This Group of Girls and Men . . .' -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z |
| Summary |
In this renowned 1997 study of the clothing industry in Canada, Mercedes Steedman examines how the intricate weaving together of the meanings of class, gender, ethnicity, family, and the workplace created a job ghetto for women |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Labor unions -- Canada
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Women labor union members -- Canada -- History
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Sex discrimination in employment -- Canada -- History
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Labor unions
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Sex discrimination in employment
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Women labor union members
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Canada
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781442657434 |
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144265743X |
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