Tabla de Contenidos:
  • From loom to puff: women and waged labor in colonial Lebanon
  • Domesticity and waged labor: gendered and class polemics in colonial and postcolonial times
  • At the legal frontiers: "unruly" workingwomen between colonial authority and the national state, 1940-1946
  • Rural displacement and migration among the Régie workers, 1950-1980
  • Women negotiate family and work: 1950-1997
  • "Qati al-arzaq min qati al-anaq": gendered boundaries and class, tobacco women's struggle, 1960-1965.