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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454592903321

Titolo

Women, work, and place [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Audrey Kobayashi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal ; ; Buffalo, : McGill-Queens University Press, c1994

ISBN

1-282-85711-8

9786612857119

0-7735-6494-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KobayashiAudrey Lynn <1951->

Disciplina

331.4

Soggetti

Women - Employment

Women - Employment - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: Placing Women and Work""; ""1  Engendering Change: Women's Work and the Development of Urban-Social Theory""; ""2  Women's Workplaces: The Impact of Technological Change on Working-class Women in the Home and in the Workplace in Nineteenth-Century Montreal""; ""3  For the Sake of the Children: Japanese/Canadian Workers/Mothers""; ""4  Womanly Militance, Neighbourly Wrath: New Scripts for Old Roles in a Small-Town Textile Strike""; ""5  Women, Work, and Place: The Canadian Context""

""6  ""No Skill Beyond Manual Dexterity Involved"": Gender and the Construction of Skill in the East London Clothing Industry"" ""7  Gender and Occupational Restructuring in Montreal in the 1970's""; ""8  Bargaining and Balancing: Women's Waged Work as an Adjustment Strategy in U.S. Households""; ""9  Gentrification, Work, and Gender Identity""; ""Contributors""; ""Index"";