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PART 1 – Fighting Back
Workplace Activism
From: Through the Mill
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This chapter looks at workplace activism and labour groups, and how women were treated by and excluded from these groups. It looks at the demographics of female workers and intersecting identities (ie. French-Canadians, Catholics, single women, mothers, and wives, etc.), instances that women walked off the job to protest working conditions in the cotton industry in Quebec from 1880-1900 and the results of these protests, legislation passed by the Quebec government to limit strikes, union politics and actions, gender issues/misogyny in unions, and the question of gender parity in the labour movement in this context.