Women's Work, Markets and Economic Development in Nineteenth-Century Ontario.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (289 pages)
- Heritage Series .
- Heritage Series .
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.
9781442657526
Women-Employment-Ontario-History-19th century. Sexual division of labor-Ontario-History-19th century. Ontario-Economic conditions.