Contents

Foreword

Introduction

1. The Wage Conceived: Value and Need as Measures of a Woman’s Worth

2. Law and a Living: The Gendered Content of “Free Labor” in the Progressive Period

3. Providers: An Exploration of Gender Ideology in the 1930s

4. The Double Meaning of Equal Pay

5. The Just Price, the Free Market, and the Value of Women

6. A Woman’s Wage, Redux

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index