Last Hired, First Fired: Women and the Canadian Work ForceStudy of trends in the labour force participation of woman workers and their economic role in the labour market of Canada since 1901 - likens female underemployment and disguised unemployment to that of a reserve army of labour with cheap wages; denounces sexual division of labour as a form of sex discrimination; examines changing industrial structures and occupational structures; notes increasing need for labour force participation of married women to maintain standard of living within the family. Bibliography. |
Contents
Introduction by Margaret Benston | 1 |
Womens Work | 5 |
Reserve Labour in a Capitalist System | 10 |
Copyright | |
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active reserve agriculture army of labour average Canadian Labour Force capital accumulation capitalist capitalist system Census of Canada changes Chapter clerical competition creates defined demand for female Department of Labour domestic labour domestic service earnings economic Economy of Ontario elsewhere classified employed employment entering the labour existence expand factors farm female labour force female labour market female occupations female reserve historical household Hugh Armstrong husbands Ibid income increased institutionalized inactive reserve Karl Marx labour force participation labour power Leo Johnson Lorna Marsden major male labour male workers manufacturing Marx's Meltz men's jobs monopsony necessary labour number of women occupational groups occupational structure Ontario Ottawa Paul Sweezy preconditions reserve labour Royal Commission segregated sell their labour service occupations social Statistics Canada Status of Women surplus labour surplus population surplus value Sweezy Sylvia Ostry tion Toronto trade unions white-collar Women in Canada women workers women's labour