Introduction / Carol Groneman and Mary Beth Norton
Housewife and gadder : themes of self-sufficiency and community in eighteenth-century New England / Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
The sexual division of labor and the artisan tradition in early industrial capitalism : the case of New England shoemaking, 1780-1860 / Mary H. Blewett
Beyond conventional wisdom : women's wage work, household economic contribution, and labor activism in a mid-nineteenth-century working-class community / Carole Turbin
Sapphire? : the issue of dominance in the slave family, 1830-1865 / Christie Farnham
"She helped me hay it as good as a man" : relations among women and men in an agricultural community / Nancy Grey Osterud.Gender relations and working-class leisure : New York City, 1880-1920 / Kathy Peiss
From "Sealskin and shoddy" to "The pig-headed girl" : patriarchal fables for workers / Ann Schofield
Trouble in the nursery : physicians, families, and wet nurses at the end of the nineteenth century / Janet Golden
Feeling the pinch : the Kalamazoo Corsetmakers' Strike of 1912 / Karen M. Mason
Seeking "a new day and a new way" : black women and unions in the Southern tobacco industry / Dolores Janiewski
Housewife and household worker : employer-employee relationships in the home, 1928-1941 / Phyllis Palmer
"This work had a end" : African-American domestic workers in Washington, D.C., 1910-1940 / Elizabeth Clark-Lewis. "He isn't half so cranky as he used to be" : agricultural mechanization, comparable worth, and the changing farm family / Corlann Gee Bush
Wins and losses : the UAW Women's Bureau after World War II, 1945-1950 / Nancy Gabin
Amber waves of gain : women's work in New York farm families / Sarah Elbert
By the day or week : Mexicana domestic workers in El Paso / Vicki L. Ruiz
Working women's consciousness : traditional or oppositional? / Cynthia Costello