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Author Sangster, Joan, 1952-

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

Publication Info. Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, [1995]
©1995

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Description 1 online resource (x, 333 pages) : illustrations, digital file.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Studies in gender and history ; [2]
Studies in gender and history ; 2.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Subject Women -- Employment -- Ontario -- Peterborough -- History -- 20th century.
Women -- Employment.
Ontario -- Peterborough.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Working class women -- Ontario -- Peterborough -- History -- 20th century.
Working class women.
Sexual division of labor -- Ontario -- Peterborough -- History -- 20th century.
Sexual division of labor.
Peterborough (Ont.) -- Social conditions.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Other Form: Print version: Sangster, Joan. Earning Respect : The Lives of Working Women in Small-Town Ontario, 1920-1960. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2000 9780802069535
ISBN 9781442664852 (electronic book)
1442664851 (electronic book)