Transforming Labour

Women and Work in Postwar Canada

By: Joan Sangster

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The increased participation of women in the labour force was one of the most significant changes to Canadian social life during the quarter century after the close of the Second World War. Transforming Labour offers one of the first critical assessments of women's paid labour in this era, a period when more and more women, particularly those with families, were going 'out to work'.

Using case studies from across Canada, Joan Sangster explores a range of themes, including women's experiences within unions, Aboriginal women's changing patterns of work, and the challenges faced by immigrant women. By charting women's own efforts to ameliorate their work lives as well as factors that re-shaped the labour force, Sangster challenges the commonplace perception of this era as one of conformity, domesticity for women, and feminist inactivity. Working women's collective grievances fuelled their desire for change, culminating in challenges to the status quo in the 1960s, when they voiced their discontent, calling for a new world of work and better opportunities for themselves and their daughters.

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'Sangster's book is a welcome addition to the growing body of research on women's work and family lives in the three decades after the Second World War...It is refreshing to find a book that still sees working women as historical subjects rather than as abstract constructs.' -- June Hannam , Labour/le Travail, vol68: 2011

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Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 3
Representations and Realities: The Shifting Boundaries of Women's Work	p. 16
Gender, Ethnicity, and Immigrant Women in Post-war Canada: The Dionne Textile Workers	p. 53
Women and the Canadian Labour Movement during the Cold War	p. 76
'Souriez pour les Clients': Retail Work, Dupuis Frères, and Union Protest	p. 108
Discipline and Grieve: Gendering the Fordist Accord	p. 145
Aboriginal Women and Work in Prairie Communities	p. 199
Tackling the 'Problem' of the Woman Worker: The Labour Movement, Working Women, and the Royal Commission on the Status of Women	p. 233
Conclusion: Putting Contradictions in Context	p. 269
Notes	p. 281
Bibliography	p. 349
Index	p. 385
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