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Author Srigley, Katrina, 1973-

Title Breadwinning daughters : young working women in a depression-era city, 1929-1939 / Katrina Srigley
Published Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2010 (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2010)

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 206 pages : illustrations, portraits
Series Studies in gender and history
Studies in gender and history.
Contents Young working women in a Depression-Era world -- Breadwinning girls and substitute mothers : negotiating family responsibilities -- Young women's job options in an urban labour market in the 1930's -- Where is a woman safe? City spaces, workplaces, and households -- The rough 'n' ready spinsters' club : working women's leisure and respectability
Summary Katrina Srigley argues that young women were central to the labour market and family economies of Depression-era Toronto
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Young women -- Employment -- Ontario -- Toronto -- History -- 20th century
Single women -- Employment -- Ontario -- Toronto -- History -- 20th century
Women employees -- Ontario -- Toronto -- History -- 20th century
Women employees -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Women employees -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
Depressions -- 1929 -- Ontario -- Toronto
HISTORY -- Canada -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Depressions
Single women -- Employment
Social conditions
Women employees
Women employees -- Economic conditions
Women employees -- Social conditions
Young women -- Employment
SUBJECT Toronto (Ont.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Subject Ontario -- Toronto
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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