Gendering Work, (Re)Working Gender: The Contested Terrain of Women And Work
Author(s)
Fitzgerald, Jenrose
Abstract
Reviews six works published in 1998 and 1999 that explore the role of gender in labor history, from the mid-19th through the mid-20th centuries, in the United States, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Canada, colonial India, and the Soviet Union. Gender, as a category for analysis, has been underutilized, and each of these works makes a significant contribution to a rewriting of labor history from that perspective. Gender, however, is not the only significant lens operating in these works. Class, ethnicity, race, and culture each come into play in meaningful ways. These six works address labor policy and rhetoric, the implications of gender, race, and ethnicity in labor reform, intersections of labor and class, and gender as an organizing force in the history of technology.
