"These articles are revisions of papers from the 2005 international conference "Labouring Feminism and Feminist Working-Class History in North America and Beyond," held at the University of Toronto, of which "Labor" was a cosponsor"--P. 1.

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Beyond laments and eulogies: reimaginings / Eileen Boris -- Then there's the nurse / Cortney Davis -- The wages of patriarchy: some thoughts about the continuing relevance of class and gender / Allice Kessler-Harris -- The practice of everyday colonialism: indigenous women at work in the hop fields and tourist industry of Puget Sound / Paige Raibmon -- Politicizing the laboring body: working families, death, and burial in Winnipeg's Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 / Esylit Jones -- "And I feel like I'm dying from mining gold: disability, gender, and the mining community, 1920-1950 / Nancy M. Forestell -- "Where would the Negro women apply for work?": gender, race, and labor in wartime Memphis / Laurie B. Green -- "Too glamorous to be considered workers": flight attendants and pink-collar activism in mid-twentieth-century America / Kathleen M. Barry.