Out to work: a history of wage-earning women in the United States

Forming the female wage labor force: colonial America to the Civil War

The Idea of home and mother at work: the Civil War to World War I

Transforming the notion of work for women: World War I to the present.

Forming The Female Wage Labor Force: Colonial America To The Civil War:

Limits of independence in the Colonial economy

From household manufactures to wage work

Industrial wage earners and the domestic ideology

Idea Of Home And Mother At Work: The Civil War To World War I:

Why is it can a woman not be virtuous if she does mingle with the toilers?

Women's choices in an expanding labor market

Technology, efficiency, and resistance

Protective labor legislation

Transforming The Notion Of Work For Women: World War I To The Present:

Ambition and its antidote in a new generation of female workers

Some benefits of labor segregation in a decade of depression

Making history working for victory

Radical consequences of incremental change

Note of acknowledgment

Epilogue

Notes

Index.