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While historians have provided insights into the ways women's work culture and labor organizing were infused with issues of sex, sexuality and appearance, they have not similarly examined the white male working body. This article discusses the significance of this different analysis for our understanding of men workers and for its ability to continue to marginalize women at the workplace. It considers how to incorporate the "bodily turn" in history by examining three conceptual themes in research on working-class masculinity: masculinity crises, muscular masculinity, and homosociality.

This paper examines the relationship between the development of the working class and changes in the sex-structuring of occupations through a case study of newspaper compositors in the United States from 1850 to 1880. The purposes of this study are to provide data and analysis to aid in the development of a theory of workingclass formation which includes female as well as male workers, and to contribute to the debate about the roots of women's exploitative condition in the labor market. Changes in the sex-structuring of occupations are shaped by the uneven development of capitalism and the strategies developed by capital and labor to define the terms of the class relation. It is mediated by the conjuncture of two sets of contradictions-those located in the process of capital accumulation, and those located in working-class culture. The coexistence of various printing branches and other industries which had been differentially affected by capitalism resulted in divisions among workers who faced different material conditions and who pursued different class strategies. Newspaper publishers' strategies were to reorganize job processes, and to recruit female workers from other printing branches and from textile and clothing industries. Male newspaper compositors' strategies were to establish cooperative relations with female printers and to fight for "equal pay for equal work" for all printers, including women. Printers' strategies were undermined, in part, by internal contradictions within their culture. This study concludes that class fractioning along gender lines requires an understanding of the interrelationship of patriarchy and class as historical processes.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Gender and Labor History: Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future -- 2. An "Other" Side of Gender Antagonism at Work: Men, Boys, and the Remasculinization of Printers' Work, 1830-1920 -- 3. Southern Honor, Southern Dishonor: Managerial Ideology and the Construction of Gender, Race, and Class Relations in Southern Industry -- 4. Manhood and the Market: The Politics of Gender and Class among the Textile Workers of Fall River, Massachusetts, 1870-1880 -- 5. "A Man's Dwelling House Is His Castle": Tenement House Cigarmaking and the Judicial Imperative -- 6. "The Voice of Virile Labor": Labor Militancy, Community Solidarity, and Gender Identity among Tampa's Latin Workers, 1880-1921 -- 7. Gender, Self, and Work in the Life Insurance Industry, 1880-1930 -- 8. "Give the Boys a Trade": Gender and Job Choice in the 1890s -- 9. "Drawing the Line": The Construction of a Gendered Work Force in the Food Service Industry -- 10. Private Eyes, Public Women: Images of Class and Sex in the Urban South, Atlanta, Georgia, 1913-1915 -- 11. Gender, Consumer Organizing, and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1919-1929 -- 12. Paths of Unionization: Community, Bureaucracy, and Gender in the Minneapolis Labor Movement of the 1930s -- 13. The Faces of Gender: Sex Segregation and Work Relations at Philco, 1928-1938 -- 14. Time out of Mind: The UAW's Response to Female Labor Laws and Mandatory Overtime in the 1960s -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W