IRIS BERGER is Associate Professor of History, African Studies, and Women's Studies and Director of the Institute for Research on Women at the State University of New York at Albany. She is author of the award-winning book Religion and Resistance: East African Kingdoms in the Precolonial Period and co-editor (with Claire Robertson) of Women and Class in Africa.

• PREFACEABBREVIATIONSI. GENDER AND INDUSTRIALIZATION1. Gender, Community, and Working-Class History2. Dependency and Domesticity: Women's Wage Labor, 1900-1925II. WOMEN IN THE NEW INDUSTRIAL UNIONS3. Patterns of Women's Labor, 1925-19404. Daughters of the Depression5. Commandos of Working Women6. A Lengthening ThreadIII. A NEW WORKING CLASS AND THE CHALLENGE OF DEVERSITY7. Nimble Fingers and Keen Eysight: Women in Wartime Production8. A New Working Class, 1940-19609.Solidarity Fragmented: Garment Workers in the Transvaal10. Food and Canning Workers at the Cape: The Structure of Gender and Race11. Standing United12. Never Far from Home: Family, Community, and Working WomenIV.DECENTRALIZATION AND THE RISE OF INDEPENDENT UNIONS13. City and Periphery, 1960-198014. Repression and ResistanceEpilogue: Common Threads, Past and PresentNotesDocumentary Sources and InterviewsIndexIllustrations precede Chapter 8