 | Angels of the Workplace: Women and the Construction of Gender Relations in the Canadian Clothing Industry, 1890-1940 Subjects: Women clothing workers -- Canada -- History; Sex discrimination in employment -- Canada -- History; Women in trade-unions -- Canada -- History; Trade-unions -- Clothing workers -- Canada -- History; In this renowned 1997 study of the clothing industry in Canada, Mercedes Steedman examines how the intricate weaving together of the meanings of class, gender, ethnicity, family, and the workplace created a job ghetto for women. Steedman Mercedes : Mercedes Steedman is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Laurentian University. |
