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List of Tables Foreword by Catharine R. Stimpson Acknowledgments Introduction 1: Defining the Problems of "Dependent Motherhood" 2: The Structure of Public Provision: Gender and Race in Chicago's Welfare System 3: Gender and Social Policy: The Origins of Mothers' Pension Policy in Illinois 4: The Politics of Welfare Reform 5: The Economies of Mothers' Pensions Conclusion Appendix: Legislative and Judicial Changes in the Illinois 'Aid to Mother...

The growth of Las Vegas that began in the 1940s brought an influx of both women and men looking to work in the expanding hotel and casino industries. For the next fifty years the proportion of women in the labour force was greater in Las Vegas than the US as a whole. Joanne L. Goodwin's study captures the shifting boundaries of women's employment in the postwar decades with narratives drawn from the Las Vegas Women Oral History Project.