Transforming Labour offers one of the first critical assessments of women's paid labour in this era, a period when more and more women, particularly those with families, were going 'out to work'.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Representations and Realities: The Shifting Boundaries of Women's Work
Chapter 2: Gender, Ethnicity, and Immigrant Women in Postwar-Canada: The Dionne Textile Workers
Chapter 3: Women and the Canadian Labour Movement during the Cold War
Chapter 4: 'Souriez Pour les Clients': Retail Work, Dupuis Frères, and Union Protest
Chapter 5: Discipline and Grieve: Gendering the Fordist Accord
Chapter 6: Aboriginal Women and Work in Prairie Communities
Chapter 7: Tackling the "Problem": of the Woman Worker: The Labour Movement, Working Women and the Royal Commission on the Status of Women
Conclusion: Putting Contradictions in Context
Notes
Bibliography
Index