TY  - BOOK
AU  - Frager,Ruth
TI  - Sweatshop Strife: Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Jewish Labour Movement of Toronto, 1900-1939
T2  - Heritage Series
SN  - 9781442680319
AV  - HD6529.O5 F734 1992 
U1  - 331.6/39240713541 
PY  - 1992///
CY  - Toronto
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - Jewish labor unions-Ontario-Toronto-History
KW  - Labor movement-Ontario-Toronto-History
KW  - Women in the labor movement-Ontario-Toronto-History
KW  - Jews-Ontario-Toronto-History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE TEXT -- A NOTE ON THE USE OF YIDDISH -- Introduction -- 1 A Mound of Ashes in the Golden Land: The Setting -- 2 Pulling in One Direction: The Development of Jewish Working-Class Activism -- 3 Uncle Moses and the Slaves: Relations between Jewish Manufacturers and Jewish Workers -- 4 'Mixing with People on Spadina': The Tense Relations between Non-Jewish Workers and Jewish Workers -- 5 'Better Material to Exploit': The Barriers to Women's Participation in the Labour Movement -- 6 'Just as a Worker': The Dearth of Female-Oriented Strategies -- 7 Doing Things That Men Do: Women Activists in the Needle Trades -- 8 Pulling Apart: Divisions over Political Ideology -- Conclusion -- APPENDIX -- Part A: Statistical Information on the Jewish Population of Toronto -- Part B: Statistical Information on the Garment Workers of Toronto -- Part C: The Garment Unions in Toronto -- Part D: Key Strikes in Toronto's Needle Trades -- NOTES -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- PICTURE CREDITS
N2  - Frager has been able to gain access to original records that shed new light on an important chapter in Canadian ethnic, labour, and women's history
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ER  -