Women and Work: Assessing Canadian Women's Labour History at the Millennium

Authors

  • Joan Sangster

Keywords:

Historiography, Labour history, Class formation,

Abstract

This paper examines the evolution of historical writing on Canadian women and work exploring the way in which feminist challenges to the masculinist story of class formation altered the contours of working-class history. Our scholarship on women's working-class history is related to the broader trends in Canadian labour and feminist politics as well as emerging international trends in social theory and historical interpretation.

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Author Biography

Joan Sangster

Joan Sangster (Trent University) has published in the area of women's and working-class history since 1978. Her most recent monograph, Earning Respect: the Lives of Working Women in Small-town Ontario, 1920-60, was published by the University of Toronto Press. She is currently writing about the history of female juvenile delinquency in English Canada.

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Published

2000-10-01

Issue

Vol. 25 No. 1 (2000): Special Issue: Feminism and Canadian History (25th anniversary volume part one)

Section

Original Research

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