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Title Beyond caring labour to provisioning work / Sheila M. Neysmith [and others]
Published Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2012 (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2012)

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 207 pages)
Contents Chapter 1 An Introduction: Conceptialising the Work of WOmen in the 21st Century -- Chapter 2 Securing the Future by Positioning the Past in the Present -- Section A. Chapter 3 Provisioning Responsibilities of Women: Relationships Shape the Work -- Chapter 4 Collective Provisioning: Naming the Work of Vital Spaces -- Section B. Chapter 5 Producing Racial Knowledge in Community Programmes for 'At Risk' Young Women -- Chapter 6 Provisioning for Children in a Low Income Community -- Chapter 7 Revealing Older Women's Provisioning Responsibilities -- Chapter 8 Counting the Costs of Provisioning for Women Living on Low Incomes -- Section C. Chapter 9 Collective Spaces as Incubators of Citizenship -- Chapter 10 A Sharing of Life's Glories -- Appendix 1
Summary Beyond Caring Labour to Provisioning Work offers a powerful new framework for understanding women's work in a holistic sense, acknowledging both their responsibilities in supporting others as well as their employment duties
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-197) and index
Notes In English
Subject Poor women -- Canada
Poor women -- Employment -- Canada
Poor women -- Canada -- Social conditions
Women in community development -- Canada
Informal sector (Economics) -- Canada
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Social Work.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
Informal sector (Economics)
Poor women
Poor women -- Employment
Poor women -- Social conditions
Women in community development
Canada
Form Electronic book
Author Neysmith, Sheila
ISBN 9781442695726
1442695722