The Gender of Breadwinners: Women, Men and Change in Two Industrial Towns, 1880-1950
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This is a story of two Ontario towns, Hanover and Paris, that grew in many parallel ways. They were about the same size, and both were primarily one-industry towns. But Hanover was a furniture-manufacturing centre; most of its workers were men, drawn from a community of ethnic German artisans and agriculturalists. In Paris the biggest employer was the textile industry; most of its wage earners were women, assisted in emigration from England by their...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0802067603
ISBN13:9780802067609
Release Date:December 1998
Publisher:University of Toronto Press
Length:314 Pages
Weight:1.10 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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