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PREFACE
ABBREVIATIONS

I. GENDER AND INDUSTRIALIZATION
1. Gender, Community, and Working-Class History
2. Dependency and Domesticity: Women's Wage Labor, 1900-1925

II. WOMEN IN THE NEW INDUSTRIAL UNIONS
3. Patterns of Women's Labor, 1925-1940
4. Daughters of the Depression
5. Commandos of Working Women
6. A Lengthening Thread

III. A NEW WORKING CLASS AND THE CHALLENGE OF DEVERSITY
7. Nimble Fingers and Keen Eysight: Women in Wartime Production
8. A New Working Class, 1940-1960
9.Solidarity Fragmented: Garment Workers in the Transvaal
10. Food and Canning Workers at the Cape: The Structure of Gender and Race
11. Standing United
12. Never Far from Home: Family, Community, and Working Women

IV.DECENTRALIZATION AND THE RISE OF INDEPENDENT UNIONS
13. City and Periphery, 1960-1980
14. Repression and Resistance
Epilogue: Common Threads, Past and Present

Notes
Documentary Sources and Interviews
Index
Illustrations precede Chapter 8

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      Publisher Indiana University Press
      Published 22 April 1992
      ISBN-13 9780253207005
      978-0253207005
      ISBN-10 0253207002
      Also in:
      Industrial relations, occupational health

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Table of Contents

      PREFACE
      ABBREVIATIONS

      I. GENDER AND INDUSTRIALIZATION
      1. Gender, Community, and Working-Class History
      2. Dependency and Domesticity: Women's Wage Labor, 1900-1925

      II. WOMEN IN THE NEW INDUSTRIAL UNIONS
      3. Patterns of Women's Labor, 1925-1940
      4. Daughters of the Depression
      5. Commandos of Working Women
      6. A Lengthening Thread

      III. A NEW WORKING CLASS AND THE CHALLENGE OF DEVERSITY
      7. Nimble Fingers and Keen Eysight: Women in Wartime Production
      8. A New Working Class, 1940-1960
      9.Solidarity Fragmented: Garment Workers in the Transvaal
      10. Food and Canning Workers at the Cape: The Structure of Gender and Race
      11. Standing United
      12. Never Far from Home: Family, Community, and Working Women

      IV.DECENTRALIZATION AND THE RISE OF INDEPENDENT UNIONS
      13. City and Periphery, 1960-1980
      14. Repression and Resistance
      Epilogue: Common Threads, Past and Present

      Notes
      Documentary Sources and Interviews
      Index
      Illustrations precede Chapter 8

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