1. Elisabeth Hagen and Jane Jenson, Paradoxes and Promises: Work and Politics in the Post-War Years 2. Isabella Bakker, Women's Employment in Comparative Perspective 3. Veronica Beechey, Rethinking the Definition of Work: Gender and Work ; Part I: A Changing Labour Force: Paradoxes of Feminization ; 4. Pat Armstrong and Hugh Armstrong, Taking Women into Account: Redefining and Intensifying Employment in Canada 5. Jane Humphries and Jill Rubery, Recession and Exploitation: British Women in a Changing Workplace 1979-1985 6. Elisabeth Vogelheim, Women in a Changing Workplace: The Case of the Federal Republic of Germany 7. Daniela del Boca, Women in a Changing Place: The Case in Italy 8. Peter Albin and Eileen Appelbaum, The Computer Rationalization of Work: Implications for Women Workers ; Part II: The Policy Process: Promises Broken or Renewed? ; 9. Jane Jenson, The Limits of And The' Discourses: French Women as Marginal Workers 10. Mary Ruggie, Gender, Work, and Social Progess: Some Consequences of Interest Aggregation in Sweden 11. Ronnie Steinberg, The Unsubtle Revolution: Women, the State and Equal Employment 12. Harold Brackman, Steven P. Erie, and Martin Rein, Wedded to the Welfare State: Women Against Reaganite Retrenchment 13. Gisela Erler, The German Paradox: Non-Feminization of the Labour Force and Post-Industrial Social Policies ; Part III: Women's Identities: Into the Future ; 14. Anni Borzeix and Margaret Maruani, When A Strike Comes Marching Home 15. Anne-Marie Daune-Richard, Gender Relations and Female Labour: A Consideration of Sociological Categories 16. Barbara Sichtermann, The Conflict Between Housework and Employment: Some Notes on Women's Identity ; List of Contributors