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Author Vorst, Charlotte van de, 1959-

Title Making ends meet : farm women's work in Manitoba / Charlotte van de Vorst
Published Winnipeg, Man. : University of Manitoba Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (119 pages) : illustrations
Contents Front Matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Era of Subsistence Farming -- The Passing of the Pioneer Period -- Farm Women's Economic Contribution to Farm Development -- Women in Farming in Recent Times -- Endnotes -- Bibliography
Summary "Based on hundreds of interviews with Manitoba farm men and women, Making Ends Meet reconstructs the common history shared by modern farm women as well as by their mothers and grandmothers. It explores women's changing roles on the farm, from the early days of the Red River settlement to the twentieth-century farm community. The women's own stories reveal their ingenuity and tenacity in "making ends meet" through economies, shared labour, and generation of new sources of income as varied as raising poultry and custom woodworking. These stories prove that the contributions of farm women have been vital in establishing and maintaining the family farm, and are critical to its continued survival."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Women in agriculture -- Manitoba -- History
Family farms -- Economic aspects -- Manitoba -- History
Farm income -- Manitoba -- History
Sexual division of labor -- Manitoba -- History
Farmers' spouses -- Supplementary employment -- Manitoba -- History
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
Family farms -- Economic aspects
Farm income
Sexual division of labor
Women in agriculture
Manitoba
Genre/Form Electronic books
e-books.
History
Livres numériques.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780887553400
0887553400