Introduction : placing women and work / Audrey Kobayashi ... [et al.] -- Engendering change : women's work and the development of urban-social theory / Linda Peake -- Women's workplaces : the impact of technological change on working-class women in the home and in the workplace in nineteenth-century Montreal / Bettina Bradbury -- For the sake of the children : Japanese/Canadian workers/mothers / Audrey Kobayashi -- Womanly militance, neighbourly wrath : new scripts for old roles in a small-town textile strike / Joy Parr -- Women, work, and place : the Canadian context / Sylvia Gold -- "No skill beyond manual dexterity involved" : gender and the construction of skill in the East London clothing industry / Alison Kaye -- Gender and occupational restructuring in Montreal in the 1970s / Damaris Rose and Paul Villeneuve -- Bargaining and balancing : women's waged work as an adjustment strategy in U.S. households / Susan Christopherson -- Gentrification, work, and gender identity / Liz Bondi.