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Resource type
Book
Authors/contributors
Title
Women, Work and Place
Abstract
The experiences of working women are explored in Women, Work, and Place. Tied together by the conceptual theme "place matters," the essays emphasize the social, cultural, economic, historical, and geographical contexts in which women work, and the effect of specific conditions on women's experiences. Topics 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. --Publisher's description
Place
Montreal
Publisher
McGill-Queens University Press
Date
1994
# of Pages
xlv, 212 pages
Language
English
ISBN
978-0-7735-6494-7 978-1-282-85711-7
URL
https://www.mqup.ca/women--work--and-place-products-9780773512429.php?page_id=73&
Accessed
5/5/23, 9:21 PM
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Internet Archive
Extra
Book available at Internet Archive to people with print disabilities: http://archive.org/details/womenworkplace0000unse_l7t0
Notes

Contents: Introduction : Placing women and work / Audrey Kobayashi [and others] -- Engendering change: Women's work and the development of urban-social theory / Linda Peake -- Women's workplaces: The impact of technological change on working-class women in the home and in the workplace in nineteenth-century Montreal / Bettina Bradbury -- For the sake of the children: Japanese/Canadian workers/mothers / Audrey Kobayashi -- Womanly militance, neighbourly wrath: New scripts for old roles in a small-town textile strike / Joy Parr -- Women, work, and place: The Canadian context / Sylvia Gold -- "No skill beyond manual dexterity involved": Gender and the construction of skill in the East London clothing industry / Alison Kaye -- Gender and occupational restructuring in Montreal in the 1970s / Damaris Rose and Paul Villeneuve -- Bargaining and balancing: Women's waged work as an adjustment strategy in U.S. households / Susan Christopherson -- Gentrification, work, and gender identity / Liz Bondi.

Citation
Kobayashi, A. L., Bondi, L., Bradbury, B., Kaye, A., Parr, J., Villeneuve, P., Christopherson, S., Gold, S., Peake, L., & Rose, D. (1994). Women, Work and Place (A. L. Kobayashi, Ed.). McGill-Queens University Press. https://www.mqup.ca/women--work--and-place-products-9780773512429.php?page_id=73&
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