Susan Porter Benson (d. 2005) taught at the University of Missouri-Columbia, University of Connecticut, and Yale University. She is the author of Household Accounts: Working-class Family Economies in the Interwar United States.

Winner of the Chicago Women in Publishing Award, "Relevance to Women's Issues," 1987."A path-breaking and imaginative social history. Benson has made an original and sophisticated contribution to the study of the work process in the service sector."--Journal of American History "Advances our understanding of the history of women and work, and it does so in an engaging way that should command the attention not only of historians, but of a general readership as well."--Women's Review of Books