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This 5 page paper analyzes four articles that are linked by the overall theme of class struggle; each of them speaks to different aspects of that phenomenon. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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offices, are never give monetary rewards that are actually commensurate with their efforts. The money that they make goes instead to their bosses, while they struggle to make ends
meet. This paper analyzes four articles that are linked by the overall theme of class struggle; each of them speaks to different aspects of that phenomenon. Steedman: "Skill
and Gender in the Canadian Clothing Industry, 1890-1940" Mercedes Steedmans article describes the way in which the garment industry in Canada came to be "genderized" so that men and
women have clearly defined functions within it, and so that women will always be paid less than men for the same work. It also touches on the struggles of
both men and women to organize, and the way in which their participation in the union movement changed womens status in the garment industry. Much of the difficulty that women
faced in the Canadian garment industry stemmed from the fact that their place in industry was defined by their place in society: "... the basis of womens work in the
clothing industry lay in the social view that their ultimate destiny as wives and mothers made them peripheral to the paid work world" (Steedman, p. 450). This is a
very narrow viewpoint; one which says that women have only one real, legitimate career: marriage and motherhood. This is a stereotype that women have been fighting, largely unsuccessfully,
for millennia. What it means in this context is that women were expected to get married and move into the home and out of the workforce; therefore, they were
"temporary," and since they were considered mere adjuncts to the male workers, they didnt have to be paid well. This thinking works to the advantage of the owners, not
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