Women, work and cotton manufacturing -- Organising the factory : manufacturers choices -- The choices for work in textile communities -- Millwork : pay, work and equity -- A time to work -- Collective action -- Gender, health and working conditions -- Womens impact on industrial development :...

Building North American nation-states, 1774-1871 -- Canada in the shadow of industrial America, 1871-1903 -- Beginning a bilateral relationship, 1903-1918 -- A relationship matures, 1919-1938 -- World War to Cold War, 1939-1947 -- Canada in the new American empire, 1948-1960 -- The moose that...

Introduction : analyzing work as an experience -- Work in premodern societies -- Work and the American tradition -- The impact of industrialization -- Modern work the American way -- Rearranging modern work : the young, the old, and the female -- Global trends in the past half-century : the...

When President Roosevelt took the oath of office in 1933, he was facing a devastated nation. Four years into the Great Depression, 13 million American workers were jobless. What people wanted were jobs, not handouts, and in 1935, after a variety of temporary relief measures, a permanent...