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Alice Kessler-Harris is the R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History at Columbia University. Her books include Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States, A Woman's Wage: Historical Meanings and Social Consequences, and most recently In Pursuit of Equity: How Gender Shaped American Economic Citizenship, which won the Joan Kelly, Phillip Taft, and Bancroft Prizes.

The role of gender in the history of the working class world.

Introduction: Conflicts in a Gendered Labor History     1
Women and the Labor Movement     17
"Where Are the Organized Women Workers?"     21
Organizing the Unorganizable: Three Jewish Women and Their Union     38
Problems of Coalition Building: Women and Trade Unions in the 1920s     52
Rose Schneiderman and the Limits of Women's Trade Unionism     71
Gender and Class     93
Stratifying by Sex: Understanding the History of Working Women     97
Independence and Virtue in the Lives of Wage-Earning Women in the United States, 1870-1930     117
A New Agenda for American Labor History: A Gendered Analysis and the Question of Class     129
Treating the Male as "Other": Redefining the Parameters of Labor History     145
Reconfiguring the Private in the Context of the Public     158
Labor and Social Policy     175
The Just Price, the Free Market, and the Value of Women     179
The Debate over Equality for Women in the Workplace: Recognizing Differences     191
Gendered Interventions: Exploring the Historical Roots of U.S. Social Policy     208
The Paradox of Motherhood: Night-Work Restrictions in the United States     222
Measures for Masculinity: The American Labor Movement and Welfare-State Policy during the GreatDepression     237
New Directions     251
In Pursuit of Economic Citizenship     255
Reframing 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     286
Notes     301
Index     357