Part 1. Women and the Labor Movement = 17
1. Where are the organized women workers? = 21
2. Organizing the unorganizable : three Jewish women and their union = 38
3. Problems of coalition building : women and trade unions in the 1920s = 52
4. Rose Schneiderman and the limits of women's trade unionism = 71
Part 2. Gender and Class = 93
5. Stratifying by sex : notes on the history of working women = 97
6. Independence and virtue in the lives of wage-earning women in the United States, 1870-1930 = 117
7. A new agenda for American labor history : a gendered analysis and the question of class = 129
8. Treating the male as "other" : redefining the parameters of labor history = 145
9. Reconfiguring the private in the context of the public = 158
Part 3. Labor and Social Policy = 175
10. The just price, the free market, and the value of women = 179
11. The debate over equity for women in the workplace : recognizing differences = 191
12. Gendered interventions : exploring the historical roots of U.S. social policy = 208
13. The paradox of motherhood : night-work restrictions in the United States = 222
14. Measures for masculinity : the American labor movement and welfare-state policy during the Great Depression = 237
15. In pursuit of economic citizenship = 255
16. Reframing the history of women's wage labor : challenges of a global perspective = 270
17. History is public or nothing : learning how to keep illusions in our future = 286
1. Where are the organized women workers? = 21
2. Organizing the unorganizable : three Jewish women and their union = 38
3. Problems of coalition building : women and trade unions in the 1920s = 52
4. Rose Schneiderman and the limits of women's trade unionism = 71
Part 2. Gender and Class = 93
5. Stratifying by sex : notes on the history of working women = 97
6. Independence and virtue in the lives of wage-earning women in the United States, 1870-1930 = 117
7. A new agenda for American labor history : a gendered analysis and the question of class = 129
8. Treating the male as "other" : redefining the parameters of labor history = 145
9. Reconfiguring the private in the context of the public = 158
Part 3. Labor and Social Policy = 175
10. The just price, the free market, and the value of women = 179
11. The debate over equity for women in the workplace : recognizing differences = 191
12. Gendered interventions : exploring the historical roots of U.S. social policy = 208
13. The paradox of motherhood : night-work restrictions in the United States = 222
14. Measures for masculinity : the American labor movement and welfare-state policy during the Great Depression = 237
15. In pursuit of economic citizenship = 255
16. Reframing the history of women's wage labor : challenges of a global perspective = 270
17. History is public or nothing : learning how to keep illusions in our future = 286