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WGST 345/SOCI 345: Women and Work in Canada (Rev. C4/C5, C5/C6 & C6/C7) Report a Broken Link

This course asks why women’s work, in all its forms, has historically been unacknowledged and undervalued. It also seeks to challenge our assumptions about the work that women, transgender, and gender-nonconforming people have been performing before colonization and throughout the history of Canada.

Unit 1: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives on Women’s Work

Daniels, A. K. (1987). Invisible work. Social Problems, 34(5), 403–415.
Williams, C. (2012). Introduction. In C. Williams (Ed.), Indigenous women and work: From labor to activism (pp. 1–26). Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
Wilson, S. J. (1996). Historical trends in women’s paid employment. In Women, families and work (4th ed.) (pp. 84–107). Toronto: McGraw–Hill Ryerson.
Bradbury, B. (1993). Managing and stretching wages: The work of wives. In Working families: Age, gender, and daily survival in industrializing Montreal (pp. 152–181). Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.
Patrias, C. (2016). More menial than housemaids? Racialized and gendered labour in the fruit and vegetable industry of Canada’s Niagara region, 1880–1945. Labour/Le Travail, 78(69), 69–104.
Parr, J. (1987). Rethinking work and kinship in a Canadian hosiery town, 1919–1950. Feminist Studies, 13(1), 137–162.
Brand, D. (1994). "We weren’t allowed to go into factory work until Hitler started the war": The 1920s to the 1940s. In P. Bristow (Ed.), We’re rooted here and they can’t pull us up: Essays in African Canadian women’s history (pp. 171–191). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Sangster, J. (1995). Doing two jobs: The wage-earning mother, 1945–70. In J. Parr (Ed.), A Diversity of Women: Ontario, 1945–80 (pp. 98–134). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Unit 2: Advocacy, Inclusions, and Exclusions in Work

Sangster, J. (2012). Chapter 1: Aboriginal women and work across the 49th parallel. In C. Williams (Ed.), Indigenous women and work: From labor to activism (pp. 27–45). Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
Wilson, S. J. (1996). Current patterns of labour-force participation. In Women, families and work (4th ed.) (pp. 108–135). Toronto: McGraw–Hill Ryerson.
Barnes, C., & Mercer, G. (2005). Disability, work, and welfare: Challenging the social exclusion of disabled people. Work, Employment and Society, 19(3), 527–545.
Hill, N., Alook, A., & Hussey, I. (2017, June 27). How gender and race shape experiences of work in Alberta’s oil industry. Parkland Blog.
Pierce, J. (1995). Women and men as litigators: Gender differences on the job. In Gender trials: Emotional lives in contemporary law firms (pp. 103–142). Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Williams, C. L. (2013). The glass escalator, revisited. Gender and Society, 27(5), 609–629.
Sullivan, M. (1996). Rozzie and Harriet? Gender and family patterns of lesbian coparents. Gender and Society, 10(6), 747–767.
Dillaway, H., & Paré, E. (2008). Locating mothers: How cultural debates about stay-at-home versus Working mothers define women and home. Journal of Family Issues, 29(4), 437–463.

Unit 3: Prevailing Issues and Transformations in Work

Krahn, H. J., Lowe, G. S., & Hughes, K. D. (2007). Achieving workplace equality. In Work, industry and Canadian society (5th ed.) (pp. 205–212). Toronto: ITP Nelson.
Crenshaw, K. (1989). Demarginalizing the intersection of race and sex: A black feminist critique of anti-discrimination doctrine, feminist theory, and anti-racist politics. University of Chicago Legal Forum, 1989(1), 139–167.
Irving, D. (2017). Gender transition and job in/security. Atlantis, 38(1), 168–178.
Matulewicz, K. (2016). Law’s gendered subtext: The gender order of restaurant work and making sexual harassment normal. Feminist Legal Studies, 24(2), 127–145.
Klein, N. (1996). Can a McJob provide a living wage? Ms. Magazine, May/June, 32–36, 38.
Carr, D. (2000). The entrepreneurial alternative. In D. M. Smith (Ed.), Women at work: Leadership for the next century (pp. 208–225). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice–Hall.
Albanese, P. (2006). Small town, big benefits: The ripple effect of 7/day child care. Canadian Review of Sociology, 43(2), 125–140.
Piatote, B. H. (2012). Chapter 17: Beading lesson. In C. Williams (Ed.), Indigenous women and work: From labor to activism (pp. 268–270). Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Interviews

DeGagne, A. (Interviewer), & Andy (Interviewee). (2017, June 12). WGST/SOCI 345 interview [Interview audio file].

DeGagne, A. (Interviewer), & Andy (Interviewee). (2017, June 12). WGST/SOCI 345 interview [Interview transcript].
DeGagne, A. (Interviewer), & Darcy (Interviewee). (2017, June 21). WGST/SOCI 345 interview [Interview audio file].

DeGagne, A. (Interviewer), & Darcy (Interviewee). (2017, June 21). WGST/SOCI 345 interview [Interview transcript].
DeGagne, A. (Interviewer), & Debra (Interviewee). (2017, June 23). WGST/SOCI 345 interview [Interview audio file].

DeGagne, A. (Interviewer), & Debra (Interviewee). (2017, June 23). WGST/SOCI 345 interview [Interview transcript].
DeGagne, A. (Interviewer), & Jeanette (Interviewee). (2017, August 17). WGST/SOCI 345 interview [Interview audio file].

DeGagne, A. (Interviewer), & Jeanette (Interviewee). (2017, August 17). WGST/SOCI 345 interview [Interview transcript].
DeGagne, A. (Interviewer), & Kristy (Interviewee). (2017, June 13). WGST/SOCI 345 interview [Interview audio file].

DeGagne, A. (Interviewer), & Kristy (Interviewee). (2017, June 13). WGST/SOCI 345 interview [Interview transcript].
DeGagne, A. (Interviewer), & Laura (Interviewee). (2017, June 14). WGST/SOCI 345 interview [Interview audio file].

DeGagne, A. (Interviewer), & Laura (Interviewee). (2017, June 14). WGST/SOCI 345 interview [Interview transcript].
DeGagne, A. (Interviewer), & Marie (Interviewee). (2017, July 25). WGST/SOCI 345 interview [Interview audio file].

DeGagne, A. (Interviewer), & Marie (Interviewee). (2017, July 25). WGST/SOCI 345 interview [Interview transcript].
DeGagne, A. (Interviewer), & Martin (Interviewee). (2017, June 13). WGST/SOCI 345 interview [Interview audio file].

DeGagne, A. (Interviewer), & Martin (Interviewee). (2017, June 13). WGST/SOCI 345 interview [Interview transcript].
DeGagne, A. (Interviewer), & Michael (Interviewee). (2017, June 30). WGST/SOCI 345 interview [Interview audio file].

DeGagne, A. (Interviewer), & Michael (Interviewee). (2017, June 30). WGST/SOCI 345 interview [Interview transcript].