Earning Respect by Joan Sangster PAPERBACK 9780802069535

Earning Respect\nby Joan Sangster\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Joan Sangster\nTitle: Earning Respect\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Gender studies: women and girls\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press\nPublication year: 1995\nISBN-13: 9780802069535\nISBN-10: 0802069533\nRRP: \u00A329.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nBetween 1920 and 1960 wage-earning women in factories and offices experienced dramatic shifts in their employment conditions, the result of both the Depression and the expansion of work opportunities during the Second World War. Earning Respect examines the lives of white and blue-collar women workers in Peterborough during this period and notes the emerging changes in their work lives, as working daughters gradually became working mothers.\nJoan Sa.