Abstract
In the 1970s, feminist scholars launched a cri tique of the androcentric bias in mainstream sociological research. Women's lives in the of were for the most part invisible. Responding to a discipline that focused predominantly on the public, offi cial, and highly visible roles of men, scholars such as Dorothy Smith and others called for a sociology for women (Smith 1974; Mill man and Kanter 1975). Consequently, areas that were not traditionally defined as work such as housework, care work, and other forms of unpaid labor are now com mon in feminist research (Hochschild 1989; De Vault 1991; Garey 1999; Hansen 2004). Furthermore, the current literature on working-class jobs covers a much greater range of occupations than the 1970s litera ture did. Care and other domestic
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