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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