Spreading the light

"This book explores new evidence on the gendered nature of working-class experience and on gender relations within the Toronto working class. Christina Burr presents case studies of the printing and garment industries to demonstrate how class, race, and especially gender were integral to the politics of work and labour reform in nineteenth-century Toronto.". "In addition to being a valuable scholarly contribution, Spreading the Light is a focused study that will prove to be a popular book in Canadian social history, women's history, and labour history courses."--BOOK JACKET.