Through the mill girls and women in the Quebec cotton textile industry, 1881-1951
"Girls and women were essential to industrialization in Canada, particularly in the cotton textile industry, which was concentrated in Quebec. In 1891, for example, more than 2000 girls and women toiled in Quebec’s cotton mills, representing more than half the industry’s labour force in Quebec....
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Montréal, Québec
Baraka Books
[2018]
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Part 1: 1881-1918
- Developing the Quebec cotton industry: girls and women wanted
- Mill life
- Fighting back: workplace activism
- Part 2: 1919-1951
- Dominating the Canadian cotton industry
- New technologies, old problems: working conditions and wages
- Struggling for change in a man's world