Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- Part I. Industrial Wage Work -- The Economic Status of Women in the Early Republic: Quantitative Evidence -- WOMEN, WORK, AND THE FAMILY: FEMALE OPERATIVES IN THE LOWELL MILLS, 1830-1860 -- WOMEN, WORK, AND PROTEST IN THE EARLY LOWELL MILLS: "THE OPPRESSING HAND OF AVARICE WOULD ENSLAVE US" -- WORK, GENDER AND THE ARTISAN TRADITION IN NEW ENGLAND SHOEMAKING, 1780-1860 -- SEXUAL HARASSMENT AT THE WORKPLACE -- Social Change and Women's Work and Family Experience in Ireland and the United States -- MIGRANT WOMEN IN MID-NINETEENTH-CENTURY NEW YORK -- Female Labor Force Participation: The Origin of Black and White Differences, 1870 and 1880 -- "A Good Place to Work." Industrial Workers and Occupational Choice: The Case of Berkshire Women -- "Honor Each Noble Maid": Women Workers and the Yonkers Carpet Weavers' Strike of 1885 -- THE UNION OF SEX AND CRAFT IN THE HAVERHILL SHOE STRIKE OF 1895 -- The Work and Wages of Single Women, 1870 to 1920 -- WOMEN'S WAGE WORK AS MYTH AND HISTORY -- "WHERE ARE THE ORGANIZED WOMEN WORKERS?" -- ORGANIZING THE UNORGANIZABLE: THREE JEWISH WOMEN AND THEIR UNION