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Transforming Labour: Women and Work in Post-War Canada - Softcover

Sangster, Joan

 
9780802096524: Transforming Labour: Women and Work in Post-War Canada
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0802096522 ISBN 13: 9780802096524
Verlag: UNIV OF TORONTO PR, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Joan Sangster is a Vanier Professor Emeritus at Trent University.


`Joan Sangster's history of women's paid work shows a side of employment that is often hidden by a focus on men's labour. Transforming Labour is attentive to political economy as well as culture and identity, and beautifully places women's voices within larger theoretical debates Sangster's focus on the multiplicity of women's lived experience and the possibility of human agency in the context of unequal social relations and competing understandings of women's place at work makes for a compelling narrative that will interest readers with a wide range of expertise across many disciplines.'Judy Fudge, Faculty of Law. University of Victoria and co-author of Labour before the Law

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Verlag
UNIV OF TORONTO PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0802096522
ISBN 13 
9780802096524
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
414
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