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• catalog abstract ""In this study of the clothing industry in Canada, historian Mercedes Steedman examines how the intricate weaving together of the meanings of class, gender, ethnicity, family, and workplace served, often unconsciously, to create a job ghetto for women. Although 'girls', as working women were labelled, comprised a significant majority of garment workers - 80 per cent in 1881, at the very beginnings of industrialization; 68 per cent in 1941, when the percentage of women in all industrial sectors in Canada was only just over 15 per cent - their roles were circumscribed both in the workplace and in the trade union bureaucracy. When strikes occurred, women were at the front of picket lines, gaining sympathy and favourable media coverage for the workers' cause. But when negotiations among union leaders, management, and government officials took place, women were conspicuous by their absence, and the subsequent agreements and job classifications invariably left them with lower wages and marginal status - in an industry where they were numerically dominant and often valued as the better workers." "In Angels of the Workplace, Professor Steedman presents a history of both the garment industry and the role of women in it. The rise of left-wing unionism held out some hope for a more equitable work environment, but by the 1930s a 'new unionism' that focused on labour-management co-operation - and on maintaining male hegemony on the shop floor and at the bargaining table - had formalized gender discrimination in the needle trades for the rest of the century."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b10635776.
• catalog created "1997.".
• catalog date "1997".
• catalog date "1997.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
• catalog description ""In this study of the clothing industry in Canada, historian Mercedes Steedman examines how the intricate weaving together of the meanings of class, gender, ethnicity, family, and workplace served, often unconsciously, to create a job ghetto for women. Although 'girls', as working women were labelled, comprised a significant majority of garment workers - 80 per cent in 1881, at the very beginnings of industrialization; 68 per cent in 1941, when the percentage of women in all industrial sectors in Canada was only just over 15 per cent - their roles were circumscribed both in the workplace and in the trade union bureaucracy. When strikes occurred, women were at the front of picket lines, gaining sympathy and favourable media coverage for the workers' cause. But when negotiations among union leaders, management, and government officials took place, women were conspicuous by their absence, and the subsequent agreements and job classifications invariably left them with lower wages and marginal status - in an industry where they were numerically dominant and often valued as the better workers." "In Angels of the Workplace, Professor Steedman presents a history of both the garment industry and the role of women in it. The rise of left-wing unionism held out some hope for a more equitable work environment, but by the 1930s a 'new unionism' that focused on labour-management co-operation - and on maintaining male hegemony on the shop floor and at the bargaining table - had formalized gender discrimination in the needle trades for the rest of the century."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "1. Introduction: Across the Great Divide -- 2. The Industrial Fields of Activity: Send Forth Your Daughters -- 3. Worlds Apart: Women and Unions in the Needle Trades, 1890-1920 -- 4. From Shop-Floor Action to New Unionism: The War Years and After -- 5. Taking a Stand: Civil War in the Needle Trades -- 6. 'A Real Man's Fight': Clothing Battles in the Depression Years -- 7. When the Boys Get Together: Orchestrating Consent -- 8. After the Acts: Setting the Standards, Putting on the Pressure -- 9. Conclusion: 'This Group of Girls and Men ...'.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-319) and index.".
• catalog extent "ix, 333 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0195413083 (pbk.) :".
• catalog isPartOf "The Canadian social history series".
• catalog issued "1997".
• catalog issued "1997.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Toronto ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
• catalog spatial "Canada".
• catalog subject "331.4/887/0820971 21".
• catalog subject "Clothing workers Labor unions Canada History.".
• catalog subject "HD6073.C62 C27 1997".
• catalog subject "Labor unions Canada Clothing workers History.".
• catalog subject "Sex discrimination in employment Canada History.".
• catalog subject "Women clothing workers Canada History.".
• catalog subject "Women labor union members Canada History.".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. Introduction: Across the Great Divide -- 2. The Industrial Fields of Activity: Send Forth Your Daughters -- 3. Worlds Apart: Women and Unions in the Needle Trades, 1890-1920 -- 4. From Shop-Floor Action to New Unionism: The War Years and After -- 5. Taking a Stand: Civil War in the Needle Trades -- 6. 'A Real Man's Fight': Clothing Battles in the Depression Years -- 7. When the Boys Get Together: Orchestrating Consent -- 8. After the Acts: Setting the Standards, Putting on the Pressure -- 9. Conclusion: 'This Group of Girls and Men ...'.".
• catalog title "Angels of the workplace : women and the construction of gender relations in the Canadian clothing industry, 1890-1940 / Mercedes Steedman.".
• catalog type "text".