The seminar will analyze key concepts in the history of gender, sexuality, and women, and in labor history; it will examine trends in historical scholarship about gender, sexuality, women, labor and work in the United States and comparatively; and it will explore how the histories of labor and work intersect with experiences of gender, race, and sexual identity. It will consist of four sessions, beginning with an overview that explores the literature and specific models of how gender codes and stratifies labor activism, including work by Scott, Hearn, Milkman, Glenn, Kessler-Harris, and Kanter; and topical sessions on gender and the body at work; feminism, labor and equality in the workplace, with an emphasis on recent struggles; and recent concepts and studies using social reproduction, the care economy, and gender and the Commons in the analysis of gender and labor activism.