Women, Work, and Place.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Placing Women and Work -- 1 Engendering Change: Women's Work and the Development of Urban-Social Theory -- 2 Women's Workplaces: The Impact of Technological Change on Working-class Women in the Home and in the Workplace in Nineteenth-Century Montreal -- 3 For the Sake of the Children: Japanese/Canadian Workers/Mothers -- 4 Womanly Militance, Neighbourly Wrath: New Scripts for Old Roles in a Small-Town Textile Strike -- 5 Women, Work, and Place: The Canadian Context -- 6 "No Skill Beyond Manual Dexterity Involved": Gender and the Construction of Skill in the East London Clothing Industry -- 7 Gender and Occupational Restructuring in Montreal in the 1970s -- 8 Bargaining and Balancing: Women's Waged Work as an Adjustment Strategy in U.S. Households -- 9 Gentrification, Work, and Gender Identity -- Contributors -- 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 -- Z.

The experiences of working women are explored in Women, Work, and Place. Tied together by the conceptual theme "place matters," the essays emphasize the social, cultural, economic, historical, and geographical contexts in which women work, and the effect of specific conditions on women's experiences.

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