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

Narrating the shop -- A shop is not a home: dirt, ethnicity, and the sweatshop -- Surviving sites: sweatshops in the progressive era and beyond -- Newsreel of memory: the WPA sweatshop in the Great Depression -- The sweatshop returns: post-industrial art -- Spinning the shop -- Spinning the new...