The gender of breadwinners: women, men, and change in two industrial towns,1880-1950. /
Joy Parr.
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1990.
- xiii, 314 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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.
Sexual division of labor--History--Ontario--Paris--19th century. Sexual division of labor--History--Ontario--Paris--20th century. Sexual division of labor--History--Ontario--Hanover--19th century. Furniture industry and trade--History--Ontario--Hanover--19th century. Furniture industry and trade--History--Ontario--Hanover--20th century. Knit goods industry--History--Ontario--Paris--19th century. Knit goods industry--History--Ontario--Paris--20th century.