PART 2 – New Technologies, Old Problems
Working Conditions and Wages
From: Through the Mill
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This chapter explores the working conditions and wages throughout the 20th century for workers in the Quebec cotton textile industry. It looks at child labour, hours, working conditions, wages, and corporate welfare measures, among many other topics. Once again, too, it focuses on the experiences of women and their particular struggles in the workplace due to systemic discrimination and abusive foremen. Issues such as preferential treatment and sexual harassment were rampant.
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Contributors
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.
