Introduction / Barbara Drygulski Wright --

Part 1. Historical perspectives --

Introduction / Robert Asher --

Technology, industrialization, and the economic status of women / Carol J. Haddad --

Contested terrain revisited : technology and gender definitions of work in the printing industry, 1850-1920 / Ava Baron --

"A blessing to mankind, and especially to womankind" : the typerwriter and the feminization of clerical work, Boston, 1860-1920 / Carole Srole --

"For the good of the race" : reproductive hazards from lead and the persistence of exclusionary policies toward women / Patricia Vawter Klein --

The patent office clerk as conjurer : the vanishing lady trick in nineteen-century historical source / Autumn Stanley --

Part 2. Transformations of the work process --

Introduction / Myra Marx Ferree --

Hebrides women : a philosopher's view of technology and cultural change / Timm Triplett --

Out of the barns and into the kitchens : transformations in farm women's work in the first half of the twentieth century / Christine Kleinegger --

Technology and the redesign of work in the insurance industry / Eileen Appelbaum --

Office technology and relations of control in clerical work organization / Valerie J. Carter --

Technological advances and increasing militance : flight attendant unions in the jet age / Frieda S. Rosen --

Part 3. Access and action --

Introduction / Gail O. Mellow --

Helen Marot : the mother of democratic technics / Janet Polansky --

Females and computers : fostering involvement / Linda H. Lewis --

Expanding access to technology : computer equity for women / Sandy Weinberg --

Gender and earnings inequality among computer specialists / Katharine M. Donato and Patricia A. Roos --

Technology and emerging patterns of stratification for women of color : race and gender segregation in computer occupations / Evelyn Nakano Glenn and Charles M. Tolbert II --

A comparative survey of responses to office technology in the United States and Western Europe / Maria-Luz Daza Samper --

Women, work, and the university-affiliated technology park / Barbara Drygulski Wright.