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