Srigley, Katrina,  1973- <br/><br/>
Breadwinning daughters :  young working women in a depression-era city, 1929-1939 / 
Katrina Srigley. 
 - Toronto [Ont. :  University of Toronto Press,  (c)2010. (Saint-Lazare, Quebec :  Canadian Electronic Library,  (c)2010). 
 - 1 online resource (xii, 206 pages :  illustrations, portraits). 
 - Studies in gender and history .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Young working women in a Depression-Era world --  Breadwinning girls and substitute mothers : negotiating family responsibilities --  Young women's job options in an urban labour market in the 1930's --  Where is a woman safe? City spaces, workplaces, and households --  The rough 'n' ready spinsters' club : working women's leisure and respectability. 
<br/><br/> Katrina Srigley argues that young women were central to the labour market and family economies of Depression-era Toronto. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781442685253 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Young women--Employment--History--Ontario--Toronto--20th century.<br/>Single women--Employment--History--Ontario--Toronto--20th century.<br/>Women employees--History--Ontario--Toronto--20th century.<br/>Women employees--Social conditions--Ontario--Toronto--20th century.<br/>Women employees--Economic conditions--Ontario--Toronto--20th century.<br/>Depressions--Ontario--Toronto.--1929<br/>Depressions--1929--Toronto.--Ontario<br/>Single women--Employment--Toronto--History--Ontario--20th century.<br/>Toronto (Ont.)--Social conditions--20th century.<br/>Women employees--Toronto--Economic conditions--Ontario--20th century.<br/>Women employees--Toronto--History--Ontario--20th century.<br/>Women employees--Toronto--Social conditions--Ontario--20th century.<br/>Young women--Employment--Toronto--History--Ontario--20th century.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HD6100  / .B743 2010