24 Publications
2012
“The Notorious Mrs. Clem”: Gender, Class, and Criminality in Gilded Age America
Gamber, Wendy
The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, vol. 11, (no. 3), pp. 343, 2012-07-00. | Journal Article
2011
Building a Housewife's Paradise: Gender, Politics, and American Grocery Stores in the Twentieth Century. By Tracey Deutsch. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. 337 pp. Illustrations, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-807-83327-8
Gamber, Wendy⋅Gamber, Wendy and Deutsch, Tracey
Business History Review, vol. 85, (no. 3), pp. 659, 20110901. | Journal Article
2008
The Needle's Eye: Women and Work in the Age of Revolution (review)
Gamber, Wendy
Journal of Social History, vol. 42, (no. 1), pp. 213, 2008. | Journal Article
2007
Constructing the Turn-of-the-Century Sweatshop Daniel E. Bender Sweated Work, Weak Bodies: Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns and Languages of Labor. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2004. x + 272 pp. Introduction, illustrations, notes, index. $62.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8135-3337-6; $23.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8135-3338-4
Gamber, Wendy
The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, vol. 6, (no. 1), pp. 115, 20070101. | Journal Article
2005
Away from Home: Middle-Class Boarders in the Nineteenth-Century City
Gamber, Wendy
Journal of Urban History, vol. 31, (no. 3), pp. 289-305, 2005. | Journal Article
2004
Ready-Made Democracy: A History of Men's Dress in the American Republic, 1760-1860
Gamber, Wendy
Business History Review, vol. 78, (no. 3), Autumn 2004. | Journal Article
 
Ready-Made Democracy: A History of Men's Dress in the American Republic, 1760–1860. By Michael Zakim. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. x + 296 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $30. ISBN: 0-226-97793-5
Gamber, Wendy
Business History Review, vol. 78, (no. 3), pp. 519, 20040901. | Journal Article
2002
Antebellum Reform: Salvation, Self-Control, and Social Transformation
Gamber, Wendy
(pp. 129-153). 2002
 
In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century America
Gamber, Wendy
The Journal of American History, vol. 89, (no. 2), Sep 2002. | Journal Article
 
Tarnished labor: The home, the market, and the boardinghouse in antebellum America
Gamber, Wendy
Journal of the Early Republic, vol. 22, (no. 2), pp. 177-204, Summer 2002. | Journal Article
 
Tarnished Labor: The Home, the Market, and the Boardinghouse in Antebellum America
Gamber, Wendy
(pp. 177-204). 2002
2000
Barbara Burman, ed. The Culture of Sewing: Gender, Consumption and Home Dressmaking. Oxford: Berg Publishers, 1999. vi + 350 pp. ISBN 1-85973-203-8, $65.00 (cloth); 1-85973-208-9, $19.50 (paper)
Gamber, Wendy
Enterprise & Society, vol. 1, (no. 4), pp. 866, 2000-12-00. | Journal Article
1998
A gendered enterprise: Placing nineteenth-century businesswomen in history
Gamber, Wendy
Business History Review, vol. 72, (no. 2), pp. 188-218, Summer 1998. | Journal Article
 
A Gendered Enterprise: Placing Nineteenth-Century Businesswomen in History
Gamber, Wendy
(pp. 188-218). 1998
 
Ready-to-Wear and Ready-to-Work: A Centry of Industry and Immigrants in Paris and New York. By L. Green. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1997. Pp. ix, 426. $59.95, cloth; $19.95, paper
Gamber, Wendy
The Journal of Economic History, vol. 58, (no. 4), pp. 1140, 19981201. | Journal Article
1995
"Reduced to science": Gender, technology, and power in the American dressmaking trade, 1860-1910
Gamber, Wendy
Technology and Culture, vol. 36, (no. 3), pp. 455, Jul 1995. | Journal Article
 
'Reduced to Science': Gender, Technology, and Power in the American Dressmaking Trade, 1860-1910
Gamber, Wendy
(pp. 455-482). 1995
1994
Gendered concerns: Thoughts on the history of business and the history of women
Gamber, Wendy
Business and Economic History, vol. 23, (no. 1), pp. 129, Fall 1994. | Journal Article
 
Gendered Concerns: Thoughts on the History of Business and the History of Women
Gamber, Wendy
(pp. 129-140). 1994
1992
A Precarious Independence: Milliners and Dressmakers in Boston, 1860-1890
Gamber, Wendy
Journal of Women's History, vol. 4, (no. 1), pp. 60, Spring 1992. | Journal Article
 
A Precarious Independence: Milliners and Dressmakers in Boston, 1860-1890
Gamber, Wendy
(pp. 60-88). 1992
 
Masters to Managers: Historical and Comparative Perspectives on American Employers edited by Sanford M. Jacoby
Gamber, Wendy
The Journal of American History, vol. 78, (no. 4), Mar 1992. | Journal Article
 
We Will Rise in Our Might: Workingwomen's Voices from Nineteenth-Century New England by Mary H. Blewett
Gamber, Wendy
The Journal of American History, vol. 79, (no. 2), Sep 1992. | Journal Article
1991
The female economy: The millinery and dressmaking trades, 1860-1930 (Dissertation)
Gamber, Wendy (1991).