Susana P. Miranda,Franca Iacovetta
Cleaning Up: Portuguese Women's Fight for Labour Rights in Toronto
Cleaning Up: Portuguese Women's Fight for Labour Rights in Toronto
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In postwar Toronto, Portuguese immigrant women worked as night-time office cleaners and daytime cleaning ladies, challenging conventions and forming alliances with local activists to shape picket-line culture and advocate for workers' rights. "Cleaning Up" is an archival treasure that reveals their radical history.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 29 July 2023
Publisher: Between the Lines
This captivating book delves into the lesser-known, surprisingly radical history of Portuguese immigrant women who worked as night-time office cleaners and daytime cleaning ladies in postwar Toronto. Drawing upon union records, newspapers, and interviews, feminist labor historians Susana P. Miranda and Franca Iacovetta meticulously piece together the lives of these immigrant women who defied convention by reshaping domestic labor and leading union drives, striking for workers' rights, and challenging corporate capital in the heart of Toronto's financial district. Despite being marginalized within the labor movement and subjected to harsh working conditions in the commercial cleaning industry, these women forged critical alliances with local activists to shape picket-line culture and leave an indelible mark on their communities. Richly detailed and engagingly written, Cleaning Up is an archival treasure that sheds light on an overlooked chapter of working-class history in urban North America.
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781771136266
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