Earning respect : the lives of working women in small-town Ontario, 1920-1960 /

Earning respect : the lives of working women in small-town Ontario, 1920-1960 /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Sangster, Joan, 1952-
Imprint:	Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c1995.
Description:	x, 333 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Studies in gender and history
Subject:	Women -- Employment -- Ontario -- Peterborough -- History -- 20th century. Working class women -- Ontario -- Peterborough -- History -- 20th century. Sexual division of labor -- Ontario -- Peterborough -- History -- 20th century. Sexual division of labor. Social conditions Women -- Employment. Working class women. Peterborough (Ont.) -- Social conditions. Ontario -- Peterborough. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2378378

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ISBN:	0802005187 (bound) 0802069533 (pbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Placing the Story of Women's Work in Context
1. Peterborough: The 'Working Man's City'
2. Schooling Girls for Women's Work
3. Packing Muffets for a Living: Working Out the Gendered Division of Labour
4. Women's Work Culture, Women's Identities
5. Maintaining Respectability, Coping with Crises
6. Accommodation at Work
7. Resistance and Unionization
8. Doing Two Jobs: The Wage-Earning Mother in the Postwar Years
Conclusion: From Working Daughter to Working Mother
Appendix A: Note on the Oral History Sources
Appendix B: Tables.