Preface --rnRethinking women and politics : An introductory essay / Sandra Morgen and Ann Bookman --rnPart 1. Making your job good yourself": Domestic service and the construction of personal dignity / Bonnie Thornton Dill --rnBuilding in many places : Multiple commitments and ideologies in black women's community work / Cheryl Townsend Gilkes --rnGender and grassroots leadership / Karen Brodkin Sacks --rnPart 2. "It's the whole power of the city against us!" : The development of political consciousness in a women's health care coalition / Sandra Morgen --rnWomen workers and collective action : A case study from the insurance industry / Cynthia B. Costello --rnThe Edison School struggle : The reshaping of working-class education and women's consciousness / Wendy Luttrell --rnPart 3. Unionization in an electronics factory : The interplay of gender, ethnicity, and class / Ann Bookman --rnUrban politics in the higher education of black women : A case study / Andrée Nicola-McLaughlin and Zala Chandler --rnThe politics of race and gender : Organizing Chicana cannery workers in northern California / Patricia Zavella --rnPart 4. Women, unions, and "Participative Management" : Organizing in the sunbelt / Louis Lamphere and Guillermo J. Grenier --rnWorking-class women, social protest, and changing ideologies / Ida Susser --rnVending on the streets : City policy, gentrification, and public patriarchy / Roberta M. Spalter-Roth --rnPart 5. Communities, resistance, and women's activism : Some implications for a democratic polity / Martha A. Ackelsberg --rn"Carry it on" : Continuing the discussion and the struggle / Ann Bookman and Sandra Morgen."