Abstract
Abstract Gender matters to labor history and labor matters to gender history. This chapter aims to gender the history of the Egyptian labor movement by tracing the origin and development of women’s labor activism in the interwar period and examining women’s experiences in proletarianization, or dependency on the sale of labor power for survival. It attempts to illuminate how gender shaped working-class activism by counting the emotional, social, economic, and political labors shouldered by women to sustain the labor movement and male activists. Women in workers’ families creatively employed gendered traditions to win public awareness and sympathy for their causes. Their practices highlight working-class women’s immense contributions to labor history and how their gendered practices enhanced their activism rather than presenting barriers to it.
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