Angels of the Workplace: Women and the Construction of Gender Relations in the Canadian Clothing Industry, 1890-1940
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This book tries to explain the subtle dynamics of gender discrimination that pervaded the needle trades. The interaction of gender and ethnic culture provide a backdrop to the volatile lives of men and women who worked these trades in the first half of this century.
AcknowledgementsAbbreviations1Introduction: Across the Great Divide12The Industrial Fields of Activity: Send Forth Your Daughters123Worlds Apart: Women and Unions in the Needle Trades, 1890-1920534From Shop-Floor Action to New Unionism: The War Years and After865Taking a Stand: Civil War in the Needle Trades1106'A Real Man's Fight': Clothing Battles in the Depression Years1427When the Boys Get Together: Orchestrating Consent1908After the Acts: Setting the Standards, Putting on the Pressure2199Conclusion: 'This Group of Girls and Men ...'254Notes261Index320
