About Ruth Frager Ruth A. Frager is an associate professor in the Department of History at McMaster University. Books by Ruth Frager Discounted Labour Women Workers in Canada, 1870-1939 by (author) Ruth Frager & Carmela Patrias Sweatshop Strife Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Jewish Labour Movement of Toronto, 1900-1939 by (author) Ruth Frager