Transforming Labour: Women and Work in Postwar Canada
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...
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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'.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1: Representations and Realities: The Shifting Boundaries of Women's WorkChapter 2: Gender, Ethnicity, and Immigrant Women in Postwar-Canada: The Dionne Textile WorkersChapter 3: Women and the Canadian Labour Movement during the Cold WarChapter 4: 'Souriez Pour les Clients': Retail Work, Dupuis Frères, and Union ProtestChapter 5: Discipline and Grieve: Gendering the Fordist AccordChapter 6: Aboriginal Women and Work in Prairie CommunitiesChapter 7: Tackling the "Problem": of the Woman Worker: The Labour Movement, Working Women and the Royal Commission on the Status of WomenConclusion: Putting Contradictions in ContextNotesBibliographyIndex
