Earning Respect: The Lives of Working Women in Small Town Ontario, 1920-1960

by Joan Sangster

Book Overview

Between 1920 and 1960 wage-earning women in factories and offices experienced dramatic shifts in their employment conditions, the result of both the Depression and the expansion of work opportunities during the Second World War. Earning Respect examines the lives of white and blue-collar women workers in Peterborough during this period and notes the emerging changes in their work lives, as working daughters gradually became working mothers.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802069533
• ISBN13: 9780802069535
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher