Women have been the mainstay of the grueling, seasonal canning industry for over a century. This book is their collective biography---a history of their family and work lives, and of their union. Out of the labor militancy of the 1930s emerged the United Cannery, Agricultural, P…
Women have been the mainstay of the grueling, seasonal canning industry for over a century. This book is their collective biography---a history of their family and work lives, and of their union. Out of the labor militancy of the 1930s emerged the United Cannery, Agricultural, P…
By showing how unions raised the wages of male workers in part by transforming working-class women into middle-class housewives, the author demonstrates that organized labour's discourse on womanhood prevented unions from linking with the emerging woman-led, neighbourhood centre…
By showing how unions raised the wages of male workers in part by transforming working-class women into middle-class housewives, the author demonstrates that organized labour's discourse on womanhood prevented unions from linking with the emerging woman-led, neighbourhood centre…
