Out to Work : A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States

I Forming the Female Wage Labor Force: Colonial America to the Civil War Limits of Independence in the Colonial Economy 3(17) From Household Manufactures to Wage Work 20(25) Industrial Wage Earners and the Domestic Ideology 45(30) II The 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?'' 75(33) Women's Choices in an Expanding Labor Market 108(34) Technology, Efficiency, and Resistance 142(38) Protective Labor Legislation 180(37) III Transforming the Notion of Work for Women: World War I to the Present Ambition and Its Antidote in a New Generation of Female Workers 217(33) Some Benefits of Labor Segregation in a Decade of Depression 250(23) ``Making History Working for Victory'' 273(27) The Radical Consequences of Incremental Change 300(20) A Note of Acknowledgment 320(5) Epilogue 325(12) Notes 337(66) Index 403