Recasting the meaning of women's work in the early fight for gender equality.
Acknowledgments ixList of Abbreviations xiIntroduction 1Chapter 1 The Daily Labor of Our Own Hands 2Chapter 2 Working Girls and White Slaves 34Chapter 3 Gender, Class, and Consumption 66Chapter 4 Solving the Servant Problem 102Chapter 5 Democracy Is Only an Aspiration 129Notes 165Index 209