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The gender of breadwinners: women, men, and change in two industrial towns,1880-1950. / Joy Parr.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1990.Description: xiii, 314 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0802058531 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0802067603 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HD6060.65.C32 O57
Contents:
Contents: Part one: Gender, culture, and labour recruitment -- The politics of protection -- When is knitting women's work? -- Domesticity and mill families -- Womanly militance, neighbourly wrath -- Part Two: As Christ the carpenter --Manliness, craftsmanship, and scientific management -- For men and girls: the politics and experience of gendered wage work -- Single fellows and family men --Union men.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-308) and index.

Contents: Part one: Gender, culture, and labour recruitment -- The politics of protection -- When is knitting women's work? -- Domesticity and mill families -- Womanly militance, neighbourly wrath -- Part Two: As Christ the carpenter --Manliness, craftsmanship, and scientific management -- For men and girls: the politics and experience of gendered wage work -- Single fellows and family men --Union men.

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