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Machine generated contents note: Introduction 1 -- Margaret Walsh -- 1 New Entry Points from USA Women's Labour History -- Sheila Rowbotham 9 -- 2 Gendering Work in Eighteenth-century Towns -- Deborah Simonton 29 -- 3 Age and Gender at the Workplace: The Historical Experiences of Young People in Western Europe and North America -- Colin Heywood 48 -- 4 The Making of Men: Masculinities in Interwar Liverpool -- Pat Ayers 66 -- 5 'Whoring, Drinking Sailors': Reflections on Masculinity from the Labour History of Nineteenth-century British Shipping -- Valerie Burton 84 -- 6 Gendering the Stories of Socialism: An Essay in Historical Criticism -- June Hannam and Karen Hunt 102 -- 7 'Giving them Something to Do': How the Early ILP Appealed to Women -- Krista Cowman 119 -- 8 From the Periphery to the Centre: Changing Perspectives on American Farm Women -- Margaret Walsh 135 -- 9 Gender and Technology: Inverting Established Patterns. The Lancashire Cotton Weaving Industry at the Start of the -- Twentieth Century -- Jutta Schwarzkopf 151 -- 10 Equal Pay for Equal Work?: A New Look at Gender and Wages in the Lancashire Cotton Industry, 1790-1855 -- Janet Greenlees 167 -- 11 Gendering Cultures in Business and Labour History: Marriage Bars in Clerical Employment -- Robert Bennett 191 -- 12 'Treading the Double Path': American Women's Strategies for Legal Careers in the Interwar Generation, c.1920-1941 -- Fiona Brown 210

This book will tell the story of SACTU from when it was formed in 1955, to when it stopped organising openly in South Africa in 1964. It looks at SACTU unions organised workers in the factories. It also looks at how SACTU was important in the political struggles of that time