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Breadwinning Daughters : Young Working Women in a Depression-Era City, 1929-1939 / Katrina Srigley.
De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Srigley, Katrina, Author.
- Series:
- Studies in gender and history.
- Studies in gender and history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Young women--Employment--Ontario--Toronto--History--20th century.
- Young women.
- Women employees--Ontario--Toronto--History--20th century.
- Women employees.
- Women employees--Ontario--Toronto--Social conditions--20th century.
- Women employees--Ontario--Toronto--Economic conditions--20th century.
- Depressions--1929--Ontario--Toronto.
- Depressions.
- Toronto (Ont.)--History--20th century.
- Toronto (Ont.).
- Genre:
- History.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (221 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2020]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Katrina Srigley argues that young women were central to the labour market and family economies of Depression-era Toronto.
- Contents:
- Young working women in a Depression-Era world
- Breadwinning girls and substitute mothers : negotiating family responsibilities
- Young women's job options in an urban labour market in the 1930's
- Where is a woman safe? City spaces, workplaces, and households
- The rough 'n' ready spinsters' club : working women's leisure and respectability.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)
- ISBN:
- 1-4426-9727-X
- 1-4426-8525-5
- OCLC:
- 1163878314
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