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After the United States, Canada was the country the most severely hit by the economic crisis of the thirties. Yet few studies have tried to evaluate its effects on the family economy and the work performed by women within the private sphere. To fill this gap, the author has interviewed 30 francophone women who married before 1934 and were living in Montréal (Québec) during the Great Depression. This article presents the main conclusions of her study. It reveals the impact of the economic crisis on the different components of women's work within the family, and the role played by women in family survival during that decade. It brings forward a new dimension of the crisis and shows that for many working‐class housewives, hardship was nothing new. [1] This article was drawn from my Doctoral thesis Travail domestique et crise économique. Les ménagères montréalaises et la crise des années trente’ (University of Montréal, 1990), which was subsidised by the Fonds FCAR (Québec). Many thanks to Danièle Dionne who translated a shorter version of the paper and to Hélène Houle who faced the delicate task of translating the excerpts of interviews. Finally, I am especially grateful to Professor Deborah Gorham of Carleton University for her useful comments and careful revision of this paper. [1] This article was drawn from my Doctoral thesis Travail domestique et crise économique. Les ménagères montréalaises et la crise des années trente’ (University of Montréal, 1990), which was subsidised by the Fonds FCAR (Québec). Many thanks to Danièle Dionne who translated a shorter version of the paper and to Hélène Houle who faced the delicate task of translating the excerpts of interviews. Finally, I am especially grateful to Professor Deborah Gorham of Carleton University for her useful comments and careful revision of this paper.

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