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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.

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Gail Cuthbert Brandt

Gail Cuthbert Brandt is a specialist in Quebec history and Canadian women’s history. She is co-author of Canadian Women: A History (three editions) and of Feminist Politics on the Farm: Rural Catholic Women in Southern Quebec and Southwestern France. She holds a PhD in History from York University. She taught for 20 years at York University’s bilingual campus, Glendon College, and was named Principal of Renison University College at the University of Waterloo in 1992. A former president of the Canadian Historical Association, Dr. Cuthbert Brandt is also a founding member and former executive officer of the Ontario Women’s History Network and a member of the Canadian Committee on Women’s History.