Angels of the Workplace

Women and the Construction of Gender Relations in the Canadian Clothing Industry, 1890-1940

• Author(s): Mercedes Steedman,
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Pages: 333
• ISBN_10: 0195413083
  ISBN_13: 9780195413083
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Canada / Post-Confederation (1867-) , History / Native American ,

Description:... This book tries to explain the subtle dynamics of gender discrimination that pervaded the needle trades. The interaction of gender and ethnic culture provide a backdrop to the volatile lives of men and women who worked these trades in the first half of this century.