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Author Parr, Joy.

Title The gender of breadwinners : women, men, and change in two industrial towns, 1880-1950 / Joy Parr.

Publication Info. Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, 1990.

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 314 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-308).
Contents ""CONTENTS""; ""ILLUSTRATIONS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""Introduction""; ""PART ONE""; ""1 Gender, culture, and labour recruitment""; ""2 The politics of protection""; ""3 When is knitting women's work?""; ""4 Domesticity and mill families""; ""5 Womanly militance, neighbourly wrath""; ""PART TWO""; ""6 As Christ the carpenter""; ""7 Manliness, craftsmanship, and scientific management""; ""8 For men and girls: the politics and experience of gendered wage work""; ""9 Single fellows and family men""; ""10 Union men""; ""Conclusion""; ""NOTE ON METHOD""; ""NOTES""; ""PICTURE CREDITS""
""Select bibliography""""index""; ""a""; ""b""; ""c""; ""d""; ""e""; ""f""; ""g""; ""h""; ""i""; ""j""; ""k""; ""l""; ""m""; ""n""; ""p""; ""q""; ""r""; ""s""; ""t""; ""u""; ""w""; ""y""
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Subject Knechtel (Firm) -- Employees.
Knechtel (Firm)
Employees.
Penmans (Firm) -- Employees.
Penmans (Firme) -- Personnel.
Penmans (Firm)
Knechtel (Firme) -- Personnel.
Sexual division of labor -- Ontario -- Paris -- History.
Sexual division of labor.
Ontario -- Paris.
History.
Sexual division of labor -- Ontario -- Hanover -- History.
Ontario -- Hanover.
Work and family -- Ontario -- Paris.
Work and family.
Work and family -- Ontario -- Hanover.
Paris (Ont.) -- Social conditions.
Hanover (Ont.) -- Social conditions.
Chronological Term Geschichte 1880-1950
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Parr, Joy, 1949- Gender of breadwinners. Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, 1990 (DLC) 91103347 (OCoLC)25748758
ISBN 9781442681347 (electronic book)
1442681349 (electronic book)
0802058531 (bound)
0802067603 (paperback)
9780802067609
9780802058539 (cloth ; alkaline paper)