The great strike -- The world of textile work : continuity and change -- Millworkers, socialism, and the labor movement -- A culture of textile production -- Workers as consumers -- Feminization and industrial expansion -- Expanding the consumer market -- The depression decade and the popular front

Off-shoring customer service : a new global order -- Mobility-morality narratives : the effects of the industry on the physical mobility of women -- Traveling at night : the effects of night shift employment on the temporal mobility of women -- Fast money, family survival, and the consumer class...

Unpacking globalization : markets, gender & work -- Unpacking globalization : markets, gender and work / Linda E. Lucas -- Gender, the economy and the workplace : issues for the women's movement / Margaret Snyder -- Counter geographies of globalization : the feminization of survival / Saskia...

The closing of the gender wage gap is an ongoing phenomenon in industrialized countries. However, research has been limited in its ability to understand the causes of these changes, due in part to an inability to directly compare the work of women to that of men. In this study, we use a new...