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Social Science Women's Studies

Women at Work 1850-1930

edited by Janice Acton, Penny Goldsmith & Bonnie Shepard

Publisher
Canadian Scholars' Press Inc.
Initial publish date
Jan 1974
Category
Women's Studies, General, Labor
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780889610125
    Publish Date
    Jan 1974
    List Price
    $19.95

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Description

Women's work has been fundamental to Canada's development - whether that work has involved serving the wealthy, struggling to maintain her own family, tending the ill, teaching, or producing profits for the owner of a garment factory through sweated labour.
And yet, Florence Worthington, and thousands of women like her, have been ignored by history. Women at Work attempts to explore the realities of Canadian women's experiences, and proposes the framework which begins to answer why the double exploitation of women as mothers and workers has persisted to the present day.

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