Steam laundries: gender, technology, and work in the United States and Great Britain, 1880-1940

pt. I. Origins and growth of an industry, 1880-1920. 1. Technical and cultural origins. 2. The business of laundry. 3. Inside the laundry. 4. women workers and the laundry industry. 5. Unionization and regulation, 1888-1914

pt. II. Confronting maturity, 1920-1940. 6. Production and consumption during the interwar period. 7. Laundries in black and white. 8. Bringing in the state. 9. Compliance and enforcement at the other end of the stick. 10. Women and men and unions. 11. Facing the domestic threat

Conclusion / Remembering the laundry industry.