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Book SynopsisTransforming 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'.
Trade Review'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
Table of ContentsTable of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: Representations and Realities: The Shifting Boundaries of Women's Work Chapter 2: Gender, Ethnicity, and Immigrant Women in Postwar-Canada: The Dionne Textile Workers Chapter 3: Women and the Canadian Labour Movement during the Cold War Chapter 4: 'Souriez Pour les Clients': Retail Work, Dupuis Fr res, and Union Protest Chapter 5: Discipline and Grieve: Gendering the Fordist Accord Chapter 6: Aboriginal Women and Work in Prairie Communities Chapter 7: Tackling the "Problem": of the Woman Worker: The Labour Movement, Working Women and the Royal Commission on the Status of Women Conclusion: Putting Contradictions in Context Notes Bibliography Index
