Women's Work, Markets and Economic Development in Nineteenth-Century Ontario

by Marjorie Griffin Cohen

In this study Marjorie Griffin Cohen argues that in research into Ontario's economic history the emphasis on market activity has obscured the most prevalent type of productive relations in the staple-exporting economy - the patriarchal relations of production within the family economy.

Cohen focuses on the productive relations in the family and the significance of women's labour to the process of capital accumulation in both the capitalist sphere...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802066771
• ISBN13: 9780802066770
• Release Date: July 1988
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"