ABSTRACT
Feminists view resistance as vital both as an organizing concept for rereading women's histories and as a mode of action creating possibilities for the transformation of the conditions of women's oppressions. Taking gender struggle as an orienting framework, feminists have criticized the gender-neutral conceptualizations of labor resistance developed in class analysis or models of organizational control (Ferguson 1984; Kaplan 1982; Milkman 1985; Sacks 1988; Westwood 1984). This chapter illustrates the importance of resistance for feminist studies of women and work.
