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Gender figured significantly in the industrial, social, and political transformations of the United Kingdom and Ireland, France, Germany, and Russia. This book explores its importance during a period of radical change for the working classes, from 1800 through the 1930s. Collectively, the authors demonstrate how the study of gender can lead to a new understanding of working class history.
The authors-leading historians, sociologists, and feminist scholars ask how gender meanings and relations shaped and were shaped by transformations in areas ranging from the Irish linen industry to German social policy, from the French labor movement to Britain's interracial settlements. With special attention to the importance of language and culture in social life, they show how political identities are constituted and social categories created, contested, and changed-and how gender plays a central role in this process.

Contributors: Kathleen Canning, University of Michigan; Helen Harden Chenut, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris; Anna Clark, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Judy Coffin, University of Texas, Austin; Jane Gray, St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, Republic ofireland; Tessie P. Llu, Northwestern University; Judith F. Stone, Western Michigan University; Laura Tabili, University of Arizona; Eric D. Weitz, St. Olaf College; Elizabeth A. Wood, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title and Copyright
  2. pp. i-iv
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-viii
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. ix-x
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  1. Introduction: Gender and the Reconstruction of European Working-Class History
  2. Laura L. Frader and Sonya O. Rose
  3. pp. 1-34
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  1. I. Rethinking Proletarianization
  1. 1. Gender and Uneven Working-Class Formation in the Irish Linen Industry
  2. Jane Gray
  3. pp. 37-56
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  1. 2. What Price a Weaver's Dignity? Gender Inequality and the Survival of Home-Based Production in Industrial France
  2. Tessie P. Liu
  3. pp. 57-76
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  1. 3. The Gendering of Skill as Historical Process: The Case of French Knitters in Industrial Troyes, 1880-1939
  2. Helen Harden Chenut
  3. pp. 77-108
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  1. II. Public and Private in Working-Class History
  1. 4. Consumption, Production, and Gender: The Sewing Machine in Nineteenth-Century France
  2. Judith G. Coffin
  3. pp. 111-141
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  1. 5. Engendering Work and Wages: The French Labor Movement and the Family Wage
  2. Laura L. Frader
  3. pp. 142-164
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  1. 6. Women "of a Very Low Type": Crossing Racial Boundaries in Imperial Britain
  2. Laura Tabili
  3. pp. 165-190
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  1. III. Gender, Class, and the State
  1. 7. Protective Labor Legislation in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Gender, Class, and the Liberal State
  2. Sonya O. Rose
  3. pp. 193-210
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  1. 8. Social Policy, Body Politics: Recasting the Social Question in Germany, 1875-1900
  2. Kathleen Canning
  3. pp. 211-237
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  1. 9. Republican Ideology, Gender, and Class: France, 1860s-1914
  2. Judith F. Stone
  3. pp. 238-260
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  1. IV. Gender, Politics, and Citizenship
  1. 10. Manhood, Womanhood, and the Politics of Class in Britain, 1790-1845
  2. Anna Clark
  3. pp. 263-279
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  1. 11. Rational and Respectable Men: Gender, the Working Class, and Citizenship in Britain, 1850-1867
  2. Keith McClelland
  3. pp. 280-293
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  1. 12. Class and Gender at Loggerheads in the Early Soviet State: Who Should Organize the Female Proletariat and How?
  2. Elizabeth A. Wood
  3. pp. 294-310
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  1. 13. The Heroic Man and the Ever-Changing Woman: Gender and Politics in European Communism, 1917-1950
  2. Eric D. Weitz
  3. pp. 311-352
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 353-356
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 357-365
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