Transforming Labour: Women and Work in Postwar Canada »

Joan Sangster is a professor in the Departments of History and Women's Studies at Trent University.

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'.

Table 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 Frères, 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