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Women's Work, Markets and Economic Development in Nineteenth-Century Ontario

Women's Work, Markets and Economic Development in Nineteenth-Century Ontario

Cohen, Marjorie Griffin

Paperback

Series: Heritage, Book 11

EconomicsSocial MovementsWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0802066771
ISBN13: 9780802066770
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Jul 1 1988
Pages: 258
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.24
Language: English

In this study Marjorie Griffin Cohen argues that in research into Ontario's economic history the emphasis on market activity has obscured the most prevalent type of productive relations in the staple-exporting economy - the patriarchal relations of production within the family economy.

Cohen focuses on the productive relations in the family and the significance of women's labour to the process of capital accumulation in both the capitalist sphere and independent commodity production. She shows that while the family economy was based on the mutual dependence of male and female labour, there was not equality in productive relations. The male ownership of capital in the context of the family economy had significant implications for the control over female labour.

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