i-iv -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- The Black Washerwoman in Southern Tradition -- From Frontier Activism to Neo-Victorian Domesticity: Mormon Women in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- Technology and Women's Work: The Lives of Working Class Women in Pittsburgh, 1870-1900 -- Embellishing a Life of Labor: An Interpretation of the Material Culture of American Working-Class Homes, 1885–1915 -- The “Industrial Revolution” in the Home: Household Technology and Social Change in the 20th Century -- The Manufacture of Housework -- Time Spent in Housework -- Experts and Servants: The National Council on Household Employment and the Decline of Domestic Service in the Twentieth Century -- The Dialectics of Wage Work: Japanese-American Women and Domestic Service, 1905–1940 -- Regulating Industrial Homework: The Triumph of “Sacred Motherhood” -- Chicanas Modernize Domestic Service -- Copyright Information -- Index