Michelle Smith.
Utopian Genderscapes: Rhetorics of Women’s Work in the Early Industrial Age.
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2021. 234 pp.
$40.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8093-3835-1. 
Sara T. Damiano.
To Her Credit: Women, Finance, and the Law in Eighteenth-Century New England Cities.
Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia Series. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021. Illustrations. 312 pp.
$55.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4214-4055-2.
Gabriele Koch. Healing Labor: Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020. 248 pp. $28.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5036-1134-4; $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5036-1057-6.
Reviewed by Pamela Runestad (Allegheny College) Published on H-Japan (September, 2021) Commissioned by Jessica Starling (Lewis & Clark College)
Marla R. Miller.
Entangled Lives: Labor, Livelihood, and Landscapes of Change in Rural Massachusetts.
Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia Series. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. Illustrations. 384 pp.
$64.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4214-3274-8.
Tanya Anderson.
Gunpowder Girls: The True Stories of Three Civil War Tragedies.
Kansas City: Quindaro Press, 2016. Illustrations. 157 pp.
$16.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-9669258-7-6.
Reviewed by Kathryn Angelica (University of Connecticut) Published on H-War (July, 2020) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
Frederick W. Gooding. American Dream Deferred: Black Federal Workers in Washington, D.C., 1941-1981. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018. ix + 245 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8229-4539-0.
Reviewed by Michael Dennis (Acadia University) Published on H-FedHist (February, 2019) Commissioned by Caryn E. Neumann (Miami University of Ohio Regionals)
Susie S. Porter. From Angel to Office Worker: Middle-Class Identity and Female Consciousness in Mexico, 1890-1950. The Mexican Experience Series. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2018. Illustrations, tables, graphs. 372 pp. $35.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-4962-0649-7; $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4962-0578-0; $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4962-0421-9.
Reviewed by Nichole Sanders (University of Lynchburg) Published on H-LatAm (July, 2020) Commissioned by Casey M. Lurtz (Johns Hopkins University)
Dustin Galer. Working towards Equity: Disability Rights Activism and Employment in Late Twentieth-Century Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018. 328 pp. $32.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4875-2130-1; $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4875-0131-0.
Reviewed by Jason Ellis (University of British Columbia) Published on H-Disability (February, 2019) Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison (University of Glasgow)
Marie Hicks. Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing. History of Computing Series. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2017. 352 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-262-03554-5.
Reviewed by Jonnie Penn (University of Cambridge) Published on H-Sci-Med-Tech (February, 2019) Commissioned by Dominic J. Berry (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Kevin J. A, Thomas. Contract Workers, Risk, and the War in Iraq: Sierra Leonean Labor Migrants at US Military Bases. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017. 256 pp. $34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7735-5123-7.
Reviewed by Kathleen Alfin (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Published on H-War (May, 2019) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
