Young women and work -- Earning a living : daughters and the family economy -- Entering employment -- Mobility, migration, and aspiration -- Work culture -- "Frivolous" workers? : trade unionism and militancy -- Beyond the workplace : leisure and courtship

Prólogo /Rossana Barragán Romano y Amaru Villanueva Rance --1.Género del trabajo/no trabajo --Introducción /Mirta Zaida Lobato / Verena Stolcke / María Ullivarri --¿Qué es trabajo? Las fronteras conceptuales entre trabajo y no trabajo /Fernanda Wanderley --Los "sin trabajo" antes del...

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...