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
