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Women at Work in Nova Scotia
Publisher: Halifax Womens' Bureau, Halifax, CanadaYear Published: 1977 Pages: 45pp Price: $0.40 Resource Type: Pamphlet Cx Number: CX261 A pamphlet that examines the struggles and realities of working women in Nova Scotia. Abstract: This pamphlet examines the struggles and realities of working women in Nova Scotia. It includes interviews and articles about factory workers, office workers, women in hospitals and housework. It also reports on daycare problems, labour laws, trade unions, education and training, unemployment and offers an outline of women's work history. Hospitals are the major employers in Nova Scotia -- they employ 20,000 workers, 90% of whom are female women, from kitchen workers to registered nurses do most of the work necessary for the total care of the hospital patients. The inter-dependence between the worker is often fragmented by the hospital hierarchical system and by professionalism. Work often becomes so fragmented that each worker deals in an assembly line approach with different parts of the patient. Workers concerned with good health care are discouraged by cut-backs in wages and under-staffing. To avoid dealing with dissatisfied worker, hospitals have turned some service areas such as food and laundry over to private profit-making companies, who may be more efficient but not necessarily provide the most nutrituous food. Common problems faced by women involve low wages and shift work. Currently, 2,738 hospitals are unionized and interests is speeding. After becoming certified under the Trade Union Act, many units of the R.N.A. have started to work for better conditions. Recently in Sydney the first legal nurses strike in Canada occured. Subject Headings |