The role of gender in the history of the working class world.
Introduction: Conflicts in a Gendered Labor History 1Women and the Labor Movement 17"Where Are the Organized Women Workers?" 21Organizing the Unorganizable: Three Jewish Women and Their Union 38Problems of Coalition Building: Women and Trade Unions in the 1920s 52Rose Schneiderman and the Limits of Women's Trade Unionism 71Gender and Class 93Stratifying by Sex: Understanding the History of Working Women 97Independence and Virtue in the Lives of Wage-Earning Women in the United States, 1870-1930 117A New Agenda for American Labor History: A Gendered Analysis and the Question of Class 129Treating the Male as "Other": Redefining the Parameters of Labor History 145Reconfiguring the Private in the Context of the Public 158Labor and Social Policy 175The Just Price, the Free Market, and the Value of Women 179The Debate over Equality for Women in the Workplace: Recognizing Differences 191Gendered Interventions: Exploring the Historical Roots of U.S. Social Policy 208The Paradox of Motherhood: Night-Work Restrictions in the United States 222Measures for Masculinity: The American Labor Movement and Welfare-State Policy during the GreatDepression 237New Directions 251In Pursuit of Economic Citizenship 255Reframing the History of Women's Wage Labor: Challenges of a Global Perspective 270"History Is Public or Nothing": Learning How to Keep Illusions in Our Future 286Notes 301Index 357