
Transforming Labour
Women and Work in Postwar Canada
Joan Sangster(Author)
University of Toronto Press
Published on 17. May 2010
Book
Hardback
416 pages
978-0-8020-9711-8 (ISBN)
Description
The increased participation of women in the labour force was one of the most significant changes to Canadian social life during the quarter century after the close of the Second World War. Transforming Labour offers one of the first critical assessments of women's paid labour in this era, a period when more and more women, particularly those with families, were going 'out to work'. Using case studies from across Canada, Joan Sangster explores a range of themes, including women's experiences within unions, Aboriginal women's changing patterns of work, and the challenges faced by immigrant women. By charting women's own efforts to ameliorate their work lives as well as factors that re-shaped the labour force, Sangster challenges the commonplace perception of this era as one of conformity, domesticity for women, and feminist inactivity. Working women's collective grievances fuelled their desire for change, culminating in challenges to the status quo in the 1960s, when they voiced their discontent, calling for a new world of work and better opportunities for themselves and their daughters.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
12 illustrations; 12 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight
760 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8020-9711-8 (9780802097118)
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Person
Joan Sangster is a professor in the Departments of History and Women's Studies at Trent University.
Content
Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: Representations and Realities: The Shifting Boundaries of Women's Work Chapter 2: Gender, Ethnicity, and Immigrant Women in Postwar-Canada: The Dionne Textile Workers Chapter 3: Women and the Canadian Labour Movement during the Cold War Chapter 4: 'Souriez Pour les Clients': Retail Work, Dupuis Fr res, and Union Protest Chapter 5: Discipline and Grieve: Gendering the Fordist Accord Chapter 6: Aboriginal Women and Work in Prairie Communities Chapter 7: Tackling the "Problem": of the Woman Worker: The Labour Movement, Working Women and the Royal Commission on the Status of Women Conclusion: Putting Contradictions in Context Notes Bibliography Index