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Employs a life cycle framework to analyze women's role in the Quebec cotton industry from 1910-50 with a focus on the textile mill at Valleyfield. Concludes that young women gave all of their income to their parents, that because of this circumstance women remained unmarried until fairly late, that prior to the 1940s women left the workforce after marriage, but, commencing in that decade, women would return to work after marriage, and that with technological change and the increased sexual division of labour, women were more likely to be relegated to less skillful jobs. Also comments on the reasons why women were generally less militant workers. The paper, which is part of a larger investigation, was based on 35 interviews with female cotton workers in Valleyfield, Quebec, supplemented with census data, government reports, archival sources, and newspaper accounts.
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This article reviews the book, "'A Good Poor Man's Wife': Being a Chronicle of Harriet Hanson Robinson and Her Family in Nineteenth Century New England," by Claudia L. Bushman.
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This article reviews the book, "Farm to Factory. Women's Letters, 1830-1860," edited by Thomas Dublin.
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This article reviews the book, "Les débuts du mouvement ouvrier à Sherbrooke, 1873-1919," by Louise B. Lavoie.
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These essays introduce readers to the changing and complex character of class struggle in Canada. Individual essays focus on specific features of Canadian class struggle: regional differences, the role of gender, the character of trade union leadership to the specific nature of conflict in particular industries; and the general features of national periods of upheaval such as the year 1919 and the World War II period. [Of the eight essays, two are original to the volume, while the others are abridged or revised versions of articles that previously appeared in publications such as Labour/Le Travail and New Left Review.] --Publisher's description
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