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

By:

Parr, Joy, 1949-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, 1990.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 314 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781442681347
1442681349
9786612056307
6612056304

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Gender of breadwinners.DDC classification:

306.3/615/09713

LOC classification:

HD6060.65.C32 P258 1990eb

Other classification:

15.85
cci1icc
NW 8300

Online resources:

Click here to access online

Contents:

""CONTENTS""; ""ILLUSTRATIONS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""Introduction""; ""PART ONE""; ""1 Gender, culture, and labour recruitment""; ""2 The politics of protection""; ""3 When is knitting women's work?""; ""4 Domesticity and mill families""; ""5 Womanly militance, neighbourly wrath""; ""PART TWO""; ""6 As Christ the carpenter""; ""7 Manliness, craftsmanship, and scientific management""; ""8 For men and girls: the politics and experience of gendered wage work""; ""9 Single fellows and family men""; ""10 Union men""; ""Conclusion""; ""NOTE ON METHOD""; ""NOTES""; ""PICTURE CREDITS""

""Select bibliography""""index""; ""a""; ""b""; ""c""; ""d""; ""e""; ""f""; ""g""; ""h""; ""i""; ""j""; ""k""; ""l""; ""m""; ""n""; ""p""; ""q""; ""r""; ""s""; ""t""; ""u""; ""w""; ""y""

Summary: This is a story of two Ontario towns, Hanover and Paris, that grew in many parallel ways. They were about the same size, and both were primarily one-industry towns. But Hanover was a furniture-manufacturing centre; most of its workers were men, drawn from a community of ethnic German artisans and agriculturalists. In Paris the biggest employer was the textile industry; most of its wage earners were women, assisted in emigration from England by their Canadian employer.Joy Parr considers the impacy of these fundamental differences from a feminist perspective in her study of the towns' industrial, domestic, and community life. She combines interviews of women and men of the towns with analyses of a wide range of documents: records of the firms from which their families worked, newspapers, tax records, paintings, photographs, and government documents.Two surprising and contrasting narratives emerge. The effects of gender identities upon both women's and men's workplace experience and of economic roles upon familial relationships are starkly apparent.Extending through seventy crucial years, these closely textured case studies challenge conventional views about the distinctiveness of gender and class roles. They reconfigure the social and economic change accompanying the rise of industry. They insistently transcend the reflexive dichtomies drawn between womena dn men, public and privae, wage and non-wage work. They investigate industrial structure, technological change, domesticity, militance, and perceptions of personal power and worth, simultaneously as products of gender and class identities, recast through community sensibilities.

Item type:

Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.

Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)

Holdings
Item type	Home library	Collection	Call number	Materials specified	Status	Date due	Barcode
Electronic-Books	OPJGU Sonepat- Campus	E-Books EBSCO			Available

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-308).

Print version record.

""Select bibliography""""index""; ""a""; ""b""; ""c""; ""d""; ""e""; ""f""; ""g""; ""h""; ""i""; ""j""; ""k""; ""l""; ""m""; ""n""; ""p""; ""q""; ""r""; ""s""; ""t""; ""u""; ""w""; ""y""

This is a story of two Ontario towns, Hanover and Paris, that grew in many parallel ways. They were about the same size, and both were primarily one-industry towns. But Hanover was a furniture-manufacturing centre; most of its workers were men, drawn from a community of ethnic German artisans and agriculturalists. In Paris the biggest employer was the textile industry; most of its wage earners were women, assisted in emigration from England by their Canadian employer.Joy Parr considers the impacy of these fundamental differences from a feminist perspective in her study of the towns' industrial, domestic, and community life. She combines interviews of women and men of the towns with analyses of a wide range of documents: records of the firms from which their families worked, newspapers, tax records, paintings, photographs, and government documents.Two surprising and contrasting narratives emerge. The effects of gender identities upon both women's and men's workplace experience and of economic roles upon familial relationships are starkly apparent.Extending through seventy crucial years, these closely textured case studies challenge conventional views about the distinctiveness of gender and class roles. They reconfigure the social and economic change accompanying the rise of industry. They insistently transcend the reflexive dichtomies drawn between womena dn men, public and privae, wage and non-wage work. They investigate industrial structure, technological change, domesticity, militance, and perceptions of personal power and worth, simultaneously as products of gender and class identities, recast through community sensibilities.

eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - Worldwide

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.