This special issue of 'Labor: Studies in working-class history of the Americas', volume 3, issue 3, fall 2006, is a product of an international conference on women’s labor history held at the University of Toronto in 2005. The issue addresses: theoretical discussion of the intersections of class, gender and consumerism: the effects of work on laboring female bodies and women’s work in both rural and service industries: indigenous women’s labors: flight attendant unionism: the relationship among gender, class and illness: the gendered meaning of disability in a working-class community: the origins of the civil rights movement in African American women’s job struggles during World War II.
Contributors place violence against women and girls within a variety of cultural and religious perspectives and also present theories of violence, the role of stereotyping, and the effect of violence in the larger community.