Working out gender : perspectives from labour history

Machine generated contents note: Introduction 1 -- Margaret Walsh -- 1 New Entry Points from USA Women's Labour History -- Sheila Rowbotham 9 -- 2 Gendering Work in Eighteenth-century Towns -- Deborah Simonton 29 -- 3 Age and Gender at the Workplace: The Historical Experiences of Young People in Western Europe and North America -- Colin Heywood 48 -- 4 The Making of Men: Masculinities in Interwar Liverpool -- Pat Ayers 66 -- 5 'Whoring, Drinking Sailors': Reflections on Masculinity from the Labour History of Nineteenth-century British Shipping -- Valerie Burton 84 -- 6 Gendering the Stories of Socialism: An Essay in Historical Criticism -- June Hannam and Karen Hunt 102 -- 7 'Giving them Something to Do': How the Early ILP Appealed to Women -- Krista Cowman 119 -- 8 From the Periphery to the Centre: Changing Perspectives on American Farm Women -- Margaret Walsh 135 -- 9 Gender and Technology: Inverting Established Patterns. The Lancashire Cotton Weaving Industry at the Start of the -- Twentieth Century -- Jutta Schwarzkopf 151 -- 10 Equal Pay for Equal Work?: A New Look at Gender and Wages in the Lancashire Cotton Industry, 1790-1855 -- Janet Greenlees 167 -- 11 Gendering Cultures in Business and Labour History: Marriage Bars in Clerical Employment -- Robert Bennett 191 -- 12 'Treading the Double Path': American Women's Strategies for Legal Careers in the Interwar Generation, c.1920-1941 -- Fiona Brown 210