Getting By in Hard Times: Gendered Labour at Home and on the Job.(Book Review)

From: Resources for Feminist Research | Date: September 22, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Meg Luxton and June Corman

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001; 326 pp.

Meg Luxton and June Corman's valuable monograph, Getting By in Hard Times, depicts the working lives of women and men from Hamilton, Ontario. It is based on a major collaborative (SSHRC-sponsored) research project on working-class Steelworkers at Stelco from 1980 to 1996. Many quotations introduce us to the ordinary family lives of these white working-class heterosexual men and their wives and also to the lives of the women whose "employment in 'men's jobs' [at Stelco] challenged the gender ...

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