Race, gender, and work: a multi-cultural economic history of women in the United States

Part I: Race, gender, and women’s work

Introduction

Race, class, gender, and women's works: A conceptual framework

Part II: Histories of women’s work

I am the fire of time: American Indian women

The soul of Tierra Madre: Chicana women

Whatever your fight, don't be ladylike: European American women

We specialize in the wholly impossible: African American women

Climbing Gold Mountain: Asian American women

Yo misma fui mi ruta: Puerto Rican women

Part III: Transforming women’s work

The growth of wage work

The transformation of women's wage work

Seeking Beyond History

Appendix A: United States census sources

Appendix B: Definitions of major occupational categories

Appendix C: Labor force participation rates, 1900-1980, and share of families which were female-headed, 1960-1980

Appendix D: Some problems of comparability between census years.