Susana Miranda

Cleaning Up

Portuguese Women's Fight for Labour Rights in Toronto

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This fascinating book uncovers the little-known, surprisingly radical history of the Portuguese immigrant women who worked as night-time office cleaners and daytime â oecleaning ladiesâ in postwar Toronto. Drawing on union records, newspapers, and interviews, feminist labour historians Susana P. Miranda and Franca Iacovetta piece together the lives of immigrant women who bucked convention by reshaping domestic labour and by leading union drives, striking for workersâ (TM) rights, and taking on corporate capital in the heart of Torontoâ (TM)s financial district. Despite being sidelined within the labour movement and subjected to harsh working conditions in the commercial cleaning industry, the women forged critical alliances with local activists to shape picket-line culture and make an indelible mark on their communities. Richly detailed and engagingly written, Cleaning Up is an archival treasure about an undersung piece of working-class history in urban North America.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Between the Lines
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 417g
• ISBN-13: 9781771136266
• ISBN-10: 177113626X
• Artikelnr.: 67858714

Autorenporträt

Susana P. Miranda is an independent scholar with a PhD in history from York University. The author of scholarly articles on Portuguese cleaners in Toronto, she currently works for the Ontario Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Colleges and Universities. A public historian, she is co-founder of the Portuguese Canadian History Project, which collects, preserves, and disseminates material related to the Portuguese in Canada. She lives in Toronto.