Women at the Gates

Introduction; 1. Guarding the gates to the working class: women in industry, 1917-1929; 2. The struggle over working class feminism; 3. The gates come tumbling down; 4. From exclusion to recruitment; 5. The five-year plan for women: planning above, counter planning below; 6. Planning and chaos: the struggle for control; 7. Gender relations in industry: voices from the point of production; 8. Rebuilding the gates to the working class; Conclusion.

'As the first densely researched and vividly argued social history of Soviet women workers in the 1930s, Goldman's monograph fills a long-standing gap in the existing historiography ... Her nuanced paradigm will provide new insight into the history of women under Stalinism. This volume will be of great interest to students of Russian history as well as women's studies, and the archival references will be an invaluable starting point for future scholars.' History '... a specialized and highly focused study that integrates women into the history of soviet industrialization. As such it is recommended primarily to scholars interested in Soviet economic, labour, and women's history.' Slavonic and East European Review