Earning Respect: The Lives of Working Women in Small Town Ontario, 1920-1960

by Joan Sangster

Earning Respect examines the lives of white and blue-collar women workers in Peterborough between 1920 and 1960 and notes the emerging changes in their work lives, as working daughters gradually became working mothers.

334 pages, Paperback

First published May 24, 1995

About the author

Joan Sangster is Vanier Professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and director of the Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies at Trent University. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.