Between 1920 and 1960 wage-earning women in factories and offices
experienced dramatic shifts in their employment conditions, the
result of both the Depression and the expansion of work
opportunities during the Second World War. Earning Respect examines
the lives of white and blue-collar women workers in Peterborough
during this period and notes the emerging changes in their work
lives, as working daughters gradually became working mothers. Joan
Sangster focuses in particular on four large workplaces, examining
the gendered division of labour, women's work culture, and the
forces that encouraged women's accommodation and resistance on the
job. She also connects women's wage work to their social and
familial lives and to the larger community context, exploring
wage-earning women's 'identities, ' their attempts to cope with
economic and family crises, the gendered definitions of
working-class respectability, and the nature of paternalism in a
small Ontario manufacturing city. Sangster draws upon oral
histories as well as archival research as she traces the
construction of class and gender relations in 'small town'
industrialized Ontario in the mid-twentieth century. She uses this
local study to explore key themes and theoretical debate in
contemporary women's and working-class history.
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