Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- Part 2 -- THE HISTORICAL PROBLEM OF THE FAMILY WAGE: THE FORD MOTOR COMPANY AND THE FIVE DOLLAR DAY -- RURAL PUSH AND URBAN PULL: WORK AND FAMILY EXPERIENCES OF OLDER BLACK WOMEN IN SOUTHERN CITIES, 1880-1900 -- Our Own Kind: Family and Community Networks -- THE "GOOD MANAGERS": MARRIED WORKING CLASS WOMEN AND FAMILY BUDGET STUDIES, 1895-1915 -- The Female Life Cycle and the Measure of Jewish Social Change: Portland, Oregon, 1880-1930 -- The Women's March: Miners, Family, and Community in Pittsburg, Kansas, 1921-1922 -- Cotton Mill People: Work, Community, and Protest in the Textile South, 1880-1940 -- BEYOND THE FAMILY ECONOMY: BLACK AND WHITE WORKING-CLASS WOMEN DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION -- The Economics of Middle-Income Family Life: Working Women During the Great Depression -- Working after Childbearing in Modern America -- A PROMISE FULFILLED: Mexican Cannery Workers in Southern California -- The Impact of "Sun Belt Industrialization" on Chicanas -- Copyright Information -- Index