The Skilled Emigrant and Her Kin: Gender, Culture, and Labour Recruitment

...This paper considers the relationships among gender solidarities, wage work, and the reconstitution of family to which many women emigrated when preference or circumstance led them to lives without men. It deals with the case of approximately 700 British hosiery workers, principally from the east midlands, whom Penman's Company, then the largest knit-goods firm, assisted to emigrate to Paris, Ontario, population 4000, between 1907 and 1928... --From introduction

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