Catalogue Search | MBRL
Are you sure you want to remove the book from the shelf?
{{itemTitle}}
7
result(s) for
"Women Employment British Columbia History 20th century."
Sort by:
The business of women : marriage, family, and entrepreneurship in British Columbia 1901-51
\"Buddle offers a unique and important contribution to Canadian history She seeks not only to incorporate women into the history of business but also to reconceptualize business history itself by asking new questions about gender, business, and the family. Business history needs to undergo a gender \"revolution.\" This book will promote such rethinking of the field\" \"Throughout history, Western women have inhabited a conceptual space divorced from the world of business. But women have always engaged in business. Who were these women, and how were they able to justify their work of those women who embraced British Columbia's frontier ethos in the early twentieth century. In this detailed examination of case studies and quantitative sources, Buddle reveals that, contrary to expectation, the typical businesswoman was not unmarried or particularly rebelious but a woman reconciling her enterpreneurship with her identity as a wife, mother, or widow. This groundbreaking study not only incorporates women into the history of business, it challenges commonly held benefits about women, business and the marriage between the two.\"--BOOK JACKET.
Book
The Business of Women
A groundbreaking study of women entrepreneurs in early twentieth-century British Columbia.
eBook
WOMEN IN THE INDUSTRIAL LABOUR FORCE: Evidence for British Columbia, 1921-53(1)
A general explanation for the rise of women's labor force participation requires integrating a number if factors: long-term changes in the structure of the labor force, demographic changes, and the effects of the Depression and the Second World War, among other things. The literature and the methods are multidisciplinary: the analytical challenge has attracted historians, sociologists, and economists, and the literature from each of these disciplines is substantial. Here, Sager explores the trends in women's employment in the first half of the 20th century.
Journal Article
The Business of Women: Marriage, Family, and Entrepreneurship in British Columbia, 1901-51
In these opening chapters, [Melanie Buddle]'s analysis is important in two ways. First, it encourages us to expand our traditional understandings of 'business' to include women's entrepreneurial activity which was often small-scale, and entailed tasks - such as running a boarding house, or making dresses - that could be viewed as 'feminine' (although Buddle is careful to point out that these women were challenging norms of femininity through their business activity). Second, it highlights that historically married women did work, and not only was their work not entirely incompatible with family, but it was frequently motivated by family responsibilities. This latter insight is an important one. Because, nation-wide, it was uncommon for women to be reported as working in the census, it has been easy to conclude that married women did not or could not work. In contrast, Buddle's research encourages us not to dismiss married women's work as uncommon, but to explore further under what conditions, and in what ways, married, widowed, and separated women did work for pay.
Book Review
The Punjabis in British Columbia: Location, Labour, First Nations, and Multiculturalism
At a basic level, it focuses on the important but sorely understudied community of Punjabis who played a crucial role in the resource economies and overall development of the northern regions of the province, but the scope and potential impact of the work extends much further: it contributes in a profound way to our understanding of the \"intercultural interaction\" that characterizes many locations in North American society. The remaining chapters define the labour history of the Skeena region and the role of Punjabis, among others, in this developing economy over the course of the twentieth century (Chapter 2); the ways in which gender was configured and reconfigured in the experience of migration and in the opportunity that this afforded women to work outside the home (Chapter 4); and the cultural interactions - both antagonistic and not - that ensued over the course of nearly a century of significant Punjabi presence in the region (Chapters 6-8), including the crucial roles played by unions as \"intercultural mediators\" (i6of£).
Book Review
The Fisher Queen: A Deckhand's Tales of the BC Coast
PROMOTING AN upcoming reading of Don Pepper's A Life on the Water at the Vancouver Maritime Museum, Harbour Publishing exclaims: \"Here, finally, is a book about commercial salmon fishing through the eyes of a commercial fisherman!\" It is fortunate, then, that for the past twenty-five years, readers have also had access to several excellent books about commercial salmon fishing from the eyes - and pens - of female fishers and women of the coast, notably Edith Inglauer's bestselling account, Fishing with John, of her trolling days with husband John Daly aboard the MoreKelp, and Pat Wastell Norris's High Boats: A Century of Salmon Remembered. Planning on making enough money to return to school in the fall for a degree in nursing and counselling, Taylor instead finds herself struggling to pull in enough salmon to buy fuel, ice, and groceries: \"the gods and the government had conspired to set a deadly stage: no fish, terrible weather, closure, strikes, cutbacks, rocketing interest rates and falling fish prices.
Book Review