Historians interpret the welfare state, 1975-1995 / Maurizio Vaudagna -- Reconciling European integration and the national welfare state : a neo-Weberian perspective / Maurizio Ferrera -- Democracy after the welfare state : an interview / Ira Katznelson -- Privatization and self-responsibility :...

First published in 1982, this pioneering work traces the transformation of "women's work" into wage labor in the United States, identifying the social, economic, and ideological forces that have shaped our expectations of what women do. Basing her observations upon the personal experience of...