Introduction: Placing the Story of Women's Work in Context -- 1. Peterborough: The "Working Man's City" -- 2. Schooling Girls for Women's Work -- 3. Packing Muffets for a Living: Working Out the Gendered Division of Labour -- 4. Women's Work Culture, Women's Identities -- 5. Maintaining Respectability, Coping with Crises -- 6. Accommodation at Work -- 7. Resistance and Unionization -- 8. Doing Two Jobs: The Wage-Earning Mother in the Postwar Years -- Conclusion: From Working Daughter to Working Mother -- Appendix A: Note on the Oral History Sources -- Appendix B: Tables.
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