Making ends meet : farm women's work in Manitoba / Charlotte Van de Vorst.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Van de Vorst, Charlotte, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Family farms--Economic aspects--Manitoba--History.

Family farms.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (128 p.)

Place of Publication:

Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Based on hundreds of interviews with Manitoba farm men and women, Making Ends Meet reconstructs the common history shared by modern farm women as well as by their mothers and grandmothers. It explores women's changing roles on the farm, from the early days of the Red River settlement to the twentieth-century farm community. The women's own stories reveal their ingenuity and tenacity in "making ends meet" through economies, shared, labour, and generation of new resource income as varied as raising poultry and custom woodworking. These stories prove that the contributions of farm women have been vital in establishing and maintaining the family farm, and are critical to its continued survival.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Introduction

Era of Subsistence Farming

The Passing of the Pioneer Period

Farm Women's Economic Contribution to Farm Development

Women in Farming in Recent Times

Endnotes

Bibliography

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 17, 2017).

ISBN:

9786613090881

9781283090889

1283090880

9780887553400

0887553400

OCLC:

243614305