Breadwinning daughters : young working women in a depression-era city, 1929-1939 /

Katrina Srigley argues that young women were central to the labour market and family economies of Depression-era Toronto.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Srigley, Katrina, 1973-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2010
Series:Studies in gender and history.
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Table of 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.