Women's Work, Markets and Economic Development in Nineteenth-Century Ontario.

Cover -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Capitalist Development, Industrialization, and Women's Work -- 3 Division of Labour in a Staple-Exporting Economy -- 4 Farm Women's Labour in Ontario's Staple-Exporting Economy: Early to Mid Nineteenth Century -- 5 The Changing Conditions of Women in Dairying -- 6 Women's Paid Work and the Transition to Industrial Capitalism 1850-1911 -- 7 Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

Cohen focuses on the productive relations in the family and the significance of women's labour to the process of capital accumulation in both the capitalist sphere and independent commodity production.

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