Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
Note on clerks' organizations
Illustrations
Introduction
1. Clerks and clerking
2. Women clerks at home and work
3. An ambivalent estate: the ideologies and organizations of male clerks
4. Contending strategies for women: bourgeois and socialist organization and the analysis of home and work
5. Putting bourgeois feminism into practice: the founding of all-female clerks' associations
6. Professionalization or feminism: alternatives facing female clerks' associations in the new century
7. Class and gender in the socialist Central Alliance
8. Jobs or marriage? Contradictory messages in socializing women clerks
9. Campaigns for improved commercial training: the boundaries of the estate
10. The needs of women versus the estate: white-collar insurance
Conclusion
Notes
Select bibliography
Index.
