Meg Luxton and June Corman, Getting By in Hard Times: Gendered Labour at Home and on the Job.(Book Review)

The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology | August 1, 2003| | Copyright

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001, 314 p.

The plight of the working class, and more specifically, of the working poor, is the cause celebre of many Canadian sociologists. Perhaps the media is largely responsible for our sense of social responsibility; perhaps it is based on our own past or present reality. Regardless of what stimulates our interest in the working class, the sociological imagination provides the necessary background to undertake thoughtful analysis of it. Meg Luxton and June Corman, in Getting By in Hard Times, have taken tremendous steps ...

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