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Author Srigley, Katrina, 1973-

Title Breadwinning daughters : young working women in a depression-era city, 1929-1939 / Katrina Srigley.

Publication Info. Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, [2010]
Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2010.
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 206 pages : illustrations, portraits).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Studies in gender and history
Studies in gender and history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Subject Young women -- Employment -- Ontario -- Toronto -- History -- 20th century.
Young women -- Employment.
Ontario -- Toronto.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Young women.
Single women -- Employment -- Ontario -- Toronto -- History -- 20th century.
Single women -- Employment.
Single women.
Women employees -- Ontario -- Toronto -- History -- 20th century.
Women employees.
Women employees -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Social conditions.
Women employees -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.
Economic conditions.
Depressions -- 1929 -- Ontario -- Toronto.
Depressions.
Chronological Term 1929
Subject Toronto (Ont.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: 9781442640290
ISBN 9781442685253 (electronic book)
1442685255 (electronic book)
9781442640290 (bound)
9781442610033 (paperback)