Sweatshop Strife: Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Jewish Labour Movement of Toronto, 1900-1939
- ISBN-10
- 0802059686
- ISBN-13
- 9780802059680
- Pages
- 300
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1992
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Author
- Ruth A. Frager
Description
From the introduction: In Toronto's needle trades sweatshops, women toiled alongside men, and Jews toiled side by side with non-Jews. By the interwar period, many of the employers themselves were Jews. Frager analyzes the strengths and divisive elements (class, gender, ethnicity, political ideolog
