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Breadwinning daughters : young working women in a depression-era city, 1929-1939
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- Creator
- Katrina Srigley
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2010]
- ©2010
- Physical Details
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- xii, 206 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781442685253, 1442685255, 1442640294, 1442610034, 9781442610033, 9781442640290
- OCLC
- ocn426222064, ocn759157328
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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
Subjects
- Young women -- Employment -- Ontario -- Toronto -- History -- 20th century.
- Single women -- Employment -- Ontario -- Toronto -- History -- 20th century.
- Women employees -- Ontario -- Toronto -- History -- 20th century.
- Women employees -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
- Women employees -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.
- Depressions -- 1929 -- Ontario -- Toronto.
- Toronto (Ont.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.