Jane L. Collins is in the Department of Anthropology at the State University of New York, Binghamton. Martha Gimenez is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado.

• Acknowledgments PrefacePART I: THEORIZING UNWAGED WORK 1. Unwaged Labor in Comparative Perspective: Recent Theories and Unanswered QuestionsJane L. Collins 2. The Dialectics of Waged and Unwaged Work: Waged Work, Domestic Labor, and Household Survival in the United StatesMartha E. GimenezPART II: THE SOCIAL RELATIONS OF UNWAGED WORK 3. Negotiating Neighbors: Livelihood and Domestic Politics in Central Peru and the Pais Valenciano (Spain)Gavin Smith 4. "Not to Be a Burden": Ideologies of the Domestic Group and Women's Work in Rural CataloniaSusan Narotzky 5. Female Labor, Commodity Production, and Ideology in Mexican Peasant-Artisan HouseholdsScott Cook 6. Caribbean Slavery and the Struggle over ReproductionDale TomichPART III: CAPITALIST CRISES AND UNWAGED WORK 7. All Crises Are Not the Same: Households in the United States during Two CrisesJoan Smith 8. Servants to Capital: Unpaid Domestic Labor and Paid WorkNona Glazer 9. Making Ends Meet: Unwaged Work and Domestic Inequality in Broome County, New York, 1930-1980Randall H. McGuire and Cynthia Woodsong 10. Family Wheat Farms and Third World Diets: A Paradoxical Relationship between Unwaged and Waged LaborHarriet Friedmann Notes and References Contributors Index

"The volume brings together some of the newest ideas and approaches in the field. There are many exciting, provocative ideas in these chapters. The volume significantly moves forward the analytical thinking about work, family and household, and the market." — Marianne Schmink, University of Florida"This book promises to be an important and visible contribution to the literatures on peasants, petty commodity producers, and households. It should lead to a rethinking of basic assumptions and categories." — William Roseberry, New School for Social Research