The gender of breadwinners: women, men, and change in two industrial towns,1880-1950. / Joy Parr.
Material type: TextPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1990Description: xiii, 314 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 0802058531 (cloth : alk. paper); 0802067603 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Sexual division of labor -- Ontario -- Paris -- History -- 19th century | Sexual division of labor -- Ontario -- Paris -- History -- 20th century | Sexual division of labor -- Ontario -- Hanover -- History -- 19th century | Furniture industry and trade -- Ontario -- Hanover -- History -- 19th century | Furniture industry and trade -- Ontario -- Hanover -- History -- 20th century | Knit goods industry -- Ontario -- Paris -- History -- 19th century | Knit goods industry -- Ontario -- Paris -- History -- 20th centuryLOC classification: HD6060.65.C32 O57Item type | Current location | Home library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-308) and index.
Contents: Part one: Gender, culture, and labour recruitment -- The politics of protection -- When is knitting women's work? -- Domesticity and mill families -- Womanly militance, neighbourly wrath -- Part Two: As Christ the carpenter --Manliness, craftsmanship, and scientific management -- For men and girls: the politics and experience of gendered wage work -- Single fellows and family men --Union men.
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