Susie S. Porter is an associate professor of history and gender studies at the University of Utah. She is the author of Working Women in Mexico City: Public Discourses and Material Conditions, 1879–1931 and the coeditor of Mexican History: A Primary Source Reader.

• List of IllustrationsList of Graphs and TablesAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. “Women of the Middle Class, More Than Others, Need to Work”2. Office Work and Commercial Education during the 1920s3. Writing and Activism in 1920s Mexico City4. Women at Work in Government Offices in 1930s Mexico City5. Commercial Education and Writing during the 1930s6. Office Workers Organize during the 1930s7. Women, Work, and Middle-Class Identity during the 1940sConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

"This book is an excellent contribution to a variety of historiographies and would work well in a graduate seminar. It is also well written and well organized, making it a useful addition to undergraduate courses on labor history, women’s history, state formation, and Mexican history."-Nichole Sanders, H-LatAm "This book will appeal to anyone interested in gender and labor history in the Americas."-Evan C. Rothera, Anthropology of Work Review “In this fine study Porter contributes to our understanding of Mexico’s first-wave feminist movement. . . . She shows the close linkage between women and work in feminist programming that would, contrary to conventional scholarship, expand rather than wither in the immediate decades after 1940.”-Mary Kay Vaughan, coeditor of Sex in Revolution: Gender, Politics, and Power in Modern Mexico “Susie Porter demonstrates that labor was key to both the women’s movement and the emergence of a middle-class identity. This is a must-read for scholars of twentieth-century Mexico.”-Robert F. Alegre, associate professor of Latin American history and affiliated faculty in the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at the University of New England

Susie S. Porter is an associate professor of history and gender studies at the University of Utah. She is the author of Working Women in Mexico City: Public Discourses and Material Conditions, 1879–1931 and the coeditor of Mexican History: A Primary Source Reader.

• List of IllustrationsList of Graphs and TablesAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. “Women of the Middle Class, More Than Others, Need to Work”2. Office Work and Commercial Education during the 1920s3. Writing and Activism in 1920s Mexico City4. Women at Work in Government Offices in 1930s Mexico City5. Commercial Education and Writing during the 1930s6. Office Workers Organize during the 1930s7. Women, Work, and Middle-Class Identity during the 1940sConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

"This book is an excellent contribution to a variety of historiographies and would work well in a graduate seminar. It is also well written and well organized, making it a useful addition to undergraduate courses on labor history, women’s history, state formation, and Mexican history."-Nichole Sanders, H-LatAm "This book will appeal to anyone interested in gender and labor history in the Americas."-Evan C. Rothera, Anthropology of Work Review “In this fine study Porter contributes to our understanding of Mexico’s first-wave feminist movement. . . . She shows the close linkage between women and work in feminist programming that would, contrary to conventional scholarship, expand rather than wither in the immediate decades after 1940.”-Mary Kay Vaughan, coeditor of Sex in Revolution: Gender, Politics, and Power in Modern Mexico “Susie Porter demonstrates that labor was key to both the women’s movement and the emergence of a middle-class identity. This is a must-read for scholars of twentieth-century Mexico.”-Robert F. Alegre, associate professor of Latin American history and affiliated faculty in the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at the University of New England

Susie S. Porter is an associate professor of history and gender studies at the University of Utah. She is the author of Working Women in Mexico City: Public Discourses and Material Conditions, 1879–1931 and the coeditor of Mexican History: A Primary Source Reader.

• List of IllustrationsList of Graphs and TablesAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. “Women of the Middle Class, More Than Others, Need to Work”2. Office Work and Commercial Education during the 1920s3. Writing and Activism in 1920s Mexico City4. Women at Work in Government Offices in 1930s Mexico City5. Commercial Education and Writing during the 1930s6. Office Workers Organize during the 1930s7. Women, Work, and Middle-Class Identity during the 1940sConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

"This book is an excellent contribution to a variety of historiographies and would work well in a graduate seminar. It is also well written and well organized, making it a useful addition to undergraduate courses on labor history, women’s history, state formation, and Mexican history."-Nichole Sanders, H-LatAm "This book will appeal to anyone interested in gender and labor history in the Americas."-Evan C. Rothera, Anthropology of Work Review “In this fine study Porter contributes to our understanding of Mexico’s first-wave feminist movement. . . . She shows the close linkage between women and work in feminist programming that would, contrary to conventional scholarship, expand rather than wither in the immediate decades after 1940.”-Mary Kay Vaughan, coeditor of Sex in Revolution: Gender, Politics, and Power in Modern Mexico “Susie Porter demonstrates that labor was key to both the women’s movement and the emergence of a middle-class identity. This is a must-read for scholars of twentieth-century Mexico.”-Robert F. Alegre, associate professor of Latin American history and affiliated faculty in the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at the University of New England