On Work: Historical, Comparative and Theoretical Approaches.

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Acknowledgements Preface Introduction: Work in Context Part I Ways of Working in Former Times Editor's Introduction: Historical Aspects of Work, Employment, Unemployment and the Sexual Division of Labour 1. The Familiar Fate of the Famulae: Gender Divisions in the History of Wage Labour CHRIS MIDDLETON 2. Ways of Getting a Living in 18th Century England R. W. MALCOLMSON 3. Women's Work, Mechanization and the Early Phases of Industrialization in England MAXINE BERG 4. Protective Legislation, the Capitalist State and Working-Class Men: The Case of the 1842 Mines Regulation Act JANE HUMPHRIES 5. Work, Culture and Society in Industrializing America 1815-1919 HERBERT G. GUTMAN 6. From Work to Employment and Unemployment: The English Experience KRISHAN KUMAR Part II Employers' Strategies and Workers' Strategies Editor's Introduction 7. Taylorism, Responsible Autonomy and Management Strategy STEPHEN WOOD and JOHN KELLY 8. Thirty Years of Making Out MICHAEL BURAWOY 9. Piece Rates, Hungarian Style MICHAEL BURAWOY 10. Managerial Strategies, New Technology and the Labour Process J. CHILD 11. The Decentralisation of Production - the Decline of the Mass-Collective Worker? FERGUS MURRAY 12. Labour Market Segmentation and Workers' Careers: the Case of the Italian Knitwear Industry GIOVANNI SOLINAS 13. Worker Behaviour in the Labour Market GABOR KARTESI and GYJORGY SZIRACZKI 14. Rethinking Internal Labour Markets: New Insights from a Comparative Perspective DAVID STARK Part III Most of the World's Work: Ideas, Concepts, Problems Editor's Introduction 15. Accumulation, Reproduction and Women's Role in Economic Development: Boserup Revisited LOURDES BENERIA and GITA SEN 16. Conceptualizing the Labour Force: The Underestimation of Women's Economic Activities LOURDES BENERIA 17. Domestic Labour and the Household MAUREEN M. MACKINSTOSH 18. Women as Food Producers and Suppliers in the Twentieth Century: the Case of Zambia SHIMWAAYI MUNTEMBA 19. Gender, Accumulation and the Labour Process NANNEKE REDCLIFT 20. Female Workers in the First and Third Worlds: the Greening of Women's Labour RUTH PEARSON Part IV Forms of Work and Sources of Labour Editor's Introduction 21. No Exit for Wives: Sexual Divisions of Labour and the Cumulation of Household Demands in Canada MARTIN MEISSNER, ELIZABETH W HUMPHREYS, SCOTT M. MEIS and WILLIAM J. SCHEU 22. Who Cares? A Review of Empirical Evidence from Britain GILLIAN PARKER 23. Household Composition, Social Networks and Household Production in Germany WOLFGAN GLATZER and REGINA BERGER 24. Reciprocal Exchange of Labour in Hungary ENDRE SIK 25. Work and Informal Activities in Urban Southern Italy ENZO MINGIONE 26. Time, Technology and the Informal Economy JONATHAN GERSHUNY Part V Disaggregated Capitalism: New World Factories, New Technologies, New Strategies and New Contradictions Editor's Introduction Homeworking in Britain. CATHERINE HAK.