Book award for Dr. Srigley

Congratulations to Dr. Katrina Srigley, Associate Professor in the department of History, who has won the 2012 Alison Prentice Award in Women’s History for her bookBreadwinning Daughters: Young Working Women in a Depression-Era City, 1929-1939.The award is presented by the Ontario Historical Society.  It honours the best book on women’s history, published in the past three years.
In Breadwinning Daughters, Srigley argues that young women were central to the labour market and family economies of Depression-era Toronto. Oral histories give voice to women from a range of cultural and economic backgrounds, and challenge readers to consider how factors such as race, gender, class and marital status shaped women's lives and influenced their job options, family arrangements and leisure activities.Breadwinning Daughters brings to light previously forgotten and unstudied experiences and illustrates how women found various ways to negotiate the burdens and joys of the 1930s.