Introduction: A Theoretical Framework for Women's Work in Forming the Industrial Revolution -- 1. Women and the Verdigris Industry in Montpellier / Reed Benhamou -- 2. Women Flax Scutchers in the Linen Production of Halsingland, Sweden / Inger Jonsson -- 3. On Two-Handed Spinning / Walter Endrei and Rachel P. Maines -- 4. Women Who Wove in the Eighteenth-Century Silk Industry of Lyon / Daryl M. Hafter -- 5. The Lacemakers of Le Puy in the Nineteenth Century / John F. Sweets -- 6. Working Women, Gender, and Industrialization in Nineteenth-Century France: The Case of Lorraine Embroidery Manufacturing / Whitney Walton -- 7. The Calico Painters of Estavayer: Employers' Strategies toward the Market for Women's Labor / Pierre Caspard -- 8. From Home to Factory: Women in the Nineteenth-Century Italian Silk Industry / Patrizia Sione -- 9. Survival Strategies in a Saxon Textile District during the Early Phases of Industrialization, 1780-1860 / Jean H. Quataert.

10. The Commercialization of Trousseau Work: Female Homeworkers in the French Lingerie Trade / Tessie P. Liu.