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ACTON , JANICE / PENNY GOLDSMITH / BONNIE SHEPARD / GAIL GELTNER Women at Work , Ontario , 1850 - 1930
Toronto: Canadian Women's Eductional Press, 1974. First. Soft Cover. Photos, Charts, Drawings. 5-1/2 x 8 x 1 " 1974 softcover 1st ... rubber stamp inside first page, yellow highlighting in parts, light crease front cover; serviceable for study ... 5-1/2 x 8 x 1 " size ... 405 pages ... in English only ... illustrated with B&W photographs, tables, charts + drawings by Gail Geltner ... Woman's work has been fundamental to Canada's development ... whether that work 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 sweat labour ... And yet, Florence Worthington , and thousands of women like her, have been ignored by history ... This book attempts to explore the realities of Canadian women's experiences, and proposes the framework which begins to answer why the double exploitation of mothers and workers persisted to the present time ... Domestic Service in Canada 1880 - 1920 ... Short History of Nursing in Ontario ... Political Economy of Ontario's Working Women in the 19th Century ... The Victorian Prostitute in Toronto at the turn of the century ... Women During the Great War ... Schoolmarms and Early Teaching ... Women's Organization and early strikes ... Women in Production - Toronto Dressmakers ... Mrs. Georgina Riches first female school principal to be paid a man's salary; charwomen , ethnic breakdown of female domestics 1911, education in Upper Canada , early elementary school teachers, early daycare , white slave traffic & economic roots of prostitution in Toronto ... women munitions workers during WWI, and much more ... " Women at Work , Ontario , 1850 - 1930 " ... published by Canadian Women's Educational Press ... Toronto ... 1974 softcover ***. Fair .
Offered for US$ 12.00 by: Cavendish International Books & Music - Book number: 6385
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