Breadwinning Daughters: Young Working Women in a Depression-Era City, 1929-1939

Katrina Srigley

Published by University of Toronto Press 2009

Breadwinning Daughters

Young Working Women in a Depression-Era City, 1929-1939

Katrina Srigley

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442685253

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About this book

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

Author / Editor information

Srigley Katrina :

Katrina Srigley is an assistant professor in the Department of History at Nipissing University.

Reviews

Nina Kaye:

‘An engaging, readable, and important work… Breadwinning Daughters is an invaluable compendium of women’

s lives in the 1930s.’

Heidi MacDonald:
‘This book is an important and needed addition to Depression era historiography, labour studies, and oral history, and goes a long way in balancing the previous literature on male employment and unemployment.’

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Chapter 1. Young Working Women in a Depression-Era World Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Chapter 2. Breadwinning Girls and Substitute Mothers: Negotiating Family Responsibilities Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
Chapter 3. Young Women’s Job Options in an Urban Labour Market in the 1930s Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
Chapter 4. Where Is a Woman Safe? City Spaces, Workplaces, and Households Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
Chapter 5. The Rough ’n’ Ready Spinsters’ Club: Working Women’s Leisure and Respectability Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 240

eBook

Published: December 31, 2009
ISBN: 9781442685253