ABSTRACT
Women's work in the marketplace was central to Annie Marion MacLean's corpus: She founded the Chicago school of sociology (CSS) specialization in the sociology of work and occupation and drew on the work of the Hull-House school of sociology (HHSS) and the female Chicago school of sociology (FCSS) on women's work and on unionization. MacLean also advanced an ardent argument for birth control and against the round of pregnancies that women in poverty experienced at this time. Women's work in the marketplace, and its coordination with women's work as mothers and homemakers, was in flux during MacLean's life. She was a new woman leading the battle to remove restrictions on women's life choices. MacLean wanted to both carefully document these changes and pass on a flavor of their enjoyment and playfulness. She was not on the sidelines of these changes but happily immersed in them.
