Gender at Work

Ruth Milkman is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at The CUNY Graduate Center. Her books include On Gender, Labor, and Inequality and L.A. Story: Immigrant Workers and the Future of the U.S. Labor Movement.

"By analyzing the process of work in both the electrical and the automobile industries, the supplies of male and female labor available to each, the varying degrees of labor-intensive work, the proportion of labor costs to total costs, and the extent of male resistance to female entry into the industry before, during, and after the war, Milkman offers a historically grounded and detailed examination of the evolution, function, and reproduction of job segregation by sex."--Journal of American History "Analytic sophistication is coupled with a powerfully rendered narrative: the reader strides briskly along, enjoying one provocative insight after another while simultaneously absorbed by the drama of the events."--Women's Review of Books

• Preface   xiii1 Introduction   12 Fordism and Feminization   123 The Great Depression and the Triumph of Unionization   274 Redefining "Women's Work"   495 Wartime Labor Struggles over the Position of Women in Industry   656 The Emergence of a Women's Movement in the Wartime CIO   847 Demobilization and the Reconstruction of "Woman's Place" in Industry   998 Resistance to Management's Postwar Policies   1289 Epilogue and Conclusion   153Notes   161Index   207