Women's Working Class In Canada

In this analytic essay we will be discussing about continuity and change in women’s working class and the role they have played in the Canadian economy in the time frame of mid nineteenth century to 1990. Not only women have played a fundamental job in Canada’s economical state but they also have helped transform Canada bits by bits leading into being a better country by establishing social services, and shaping the political practices and institutions. Women developed social services within communities that were facing hard struggles, they improved the services of hospitals and orphanages, increased the safety of local communities and adding to that, obtained better quality education and huge children health enhancement for Canadians. Even

For skilled and unskilled workers it was hard times to support for their families, they were driven to adapt to the economy, save and use the less money possible, also family members had to join the workforce and earn wages. Families tried hard to adjust to their own economies and expenses; the only possible way was to make more wage earners. As studied in her paper concerning the two working class areas at Ste. Anne and Ste. Jacques wards, the average number of workers considerably changed. Wives would sometimes occupy a job only if they did not borne a child yet along with being in a young couple relationship. “By 1881 families average was about one worker in the household at that first stage of the young couples.” Canadian Family History, p.183). Work was not easily found for the girls of Ste. Anne and Ste. Jacques wards, and the job pattern was much more different than those from the boys. The girls stayed concentrated within specific jobs and sectors while the boys had a big variety of jobs in all sectors. In this reading, we were focused on the region of Montreal, adding another insight of Canada’s situation at the time. In Montreal as in other Canadian cities, the sexual division labour lowered women’s positions into jobs that are considered less skilled. Also each family made the choice of whose role is to earn wages and who’s to stay at home. It was quite obvious that women had to stay home

Even if women are doing same job as men “the sexual division of labour organized the workers into a hierarchy with "skilled" male labour and foremen above "unskilled" female labour” (Plywood Girls p.209), clearly treating women unfairly again. Nevertheless, we see how once again women were used as temporary replacement for labour and how their hard work supplied and helped the war along with keeping the Canadian economy