LEADER 03904nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910782624803321 005 20230912133757.0 010 $a1-282-85711-8 010 $a9786612857119 010 $a0-7735-6494-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9780773564947 035 $a(CKB)1000000000714169 035 $a(EBL)3330899 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000285681 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11235294 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000285681 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10320737 035 $a(PQKB)10300277 035 $a(CaPaEBR)400859 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3330899 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10141569 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL285711 035 $a(OCoLC)929121176 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/zswc1x 035 $a(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/1/400859 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3330899 035 $a(DE-B1597)657699 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780773564947 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3245261 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000714169 100 $a19940628d1994 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aWomen, work, and place$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Audrey Kobayashi 210 $aMontreal ;$aBuffalo $cMcGill-Queens University Press$dc1994 215 $a1 online resource (257 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7735-1242-X 311 $a0-7735-1225-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a""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"" 327 $a""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""; 330 $aTopics include the transformation of the work force in nineteenth-century Montreal (Bettina Bradbury), feminization of skill in the British garment industry (Allison Kaye), the relationship between work and family for Japanese immigrant women in Canada (Audrey Kobayashi), experiences of women during a labour dispute in Ontario (Joy Parr), contemporary restructuring of the labour force in the United States (Susan Christopherson) and in an urban context in Montreal (Damaris Rose and Paul Villeneuve), the effect of gentrification on women's work roles (Liz Bondi), inequality in the work force (Sylvia Gold), and theoretical issues involved in understanding women in the contemporary city (Linda Peake). An introductory essay provides a review of current issues. Feminists and women's studies specialists and activists as well as geographers, historians, sociologists, and policy planners will find this book of great interest. 606 $aWomen$xEmployment 606 $aWomen$xEmployment$xHistory 615 0$aWomen$xEmployment. 615 0$aWomen$xEmployment$xHistory. 676 $a331.4 700 $aKobayashi$b Audrey, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0273715 701 $aKobayashi$b Audrey Lynn$f1951-$0273715 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782624803321 996 $aWomen, work, and place$93836512 997 $aUNINA