
Discounted Labour
Women Workers in Canada, 1870-1939
University of Toronto Press
Will be published approx. on 9. February 2006
Book
Hardback
160 pages
978-0-8020-0828-2 (ISBN)
Description
The years between 1870 and 1939 were a crucial period in the growth of industrial capitalism in Canada, as well as a time when many women joined the paid workforce. Yet despite the increase in employment, women faced a difficult struggle in gaining fair remuneration for their work and in gaining access to better jobs. Discounted Labour analyses the historical roots of women's persistent inequality in the paid labour force. Ruth A. Frager and Carmela K. Patrias analyse how and why women became confined to low-wage jobs, why their work was deemed less valuable than men's work, why many women lacked training, job experience, and union membership, and under what circumstances women resisted their subordination.
Distinctive earning discrepancies and employment patterns have always characterized women's place in the workforce whether they have been in low-status, unskilled jobs, or in higher positions. For this reason, Frager and Patrias focus not only on women wage-earners but on women as salaried workers as well. They also analyze the divisions among women, examining how class and ethnic or racial differences have intersected with those of gender. Discounted Labour is an essential new work for anyone interested in the historical struggle for gender equality in Canada.
Distinctive earning discrepancies and employment patterns have always characterized women's place in the workforce whether they have been in low-status, unskilled jobs, or in higher positions. For this reason, Frager and Patrias focus not only on women wage-earners but on women as salaried workers as well. They also analyze the divisions among women, examining how class and ethnic or racial differences have intersected with those of gender. Discounted Labour is an essential new work for anyone interested in the historical struggle for gender equality in Canada.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 224 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
358 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8020-0828-2 (9780802008282)
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Persons
Ruth A. Frager is an associate professor in the Department of History at McMaster University.
Carmela K. Patrias is an associate professor in the Department of History at Brock University.
Carmela K. Patrias is an associate professor in the Department of History at Brock University.
Content
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Introduction
Part I: Image versus Reality
Industrial Capitalism and Women's Work
White Collars
In Times of Crisis
Part II: Confronting the Disjuncture
Social Reform and Regulation
Resistance and Its Limits
Conclusion
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
Introduction
Part I: Image versus Reality
Industrial Capitalism and Women's Work
White Collars
In Times of Crisis
Part II: Confronting the Disjuncture
Social Reform and Regulation
Resistance and Its Limits
Conclusion
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX