Sara A. Whaley Book Prize

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2018     The gender effect : capitalism, feminism, and the corporate politics of development by Kathryn Moeller; honorable mention: The cost of being a girl : working teens and the origins of the gender wage gap by Yasemin Besen-Cassino
2017     Industrial sexuality : gender, urbanization, and social transformation in Egypt by Hanan Hammad; Intimate justice : the black female body and the body politic by Shatema Threadcraft; honorable mention: Everyday conversions : Islam, domestic work, and South Asian migrant women in Kuwait by Attiya Ahmad
2016     No mercy here : gender, punishment, and the making of Jim Crow modernity by Sarah Haley; Household workers unite : the untold story of African American women who built a movement by Premilla Nadasen
2015     A taste for brown sugar : Black women in pornography by Mireille Miller-Young
2014     Working women into the borderlands by Sonia Hernández; Steel closets : voices of gay, lesbian, and transgender steelworkers by Anne Balay
2013     Care work and class : domestic workers' struggle for equal rights in Latin America by Merike Blofield
2012     Caring for America : home health workers in the shadow of the welfare state by Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein; We are in this dance together : gender, power, and globalization at a Mexican garment firm by Nancy Plankey-Videla
2011     For the family? : how class and gender shape women's work by Sarah Damaske; Both hands tied : welfare reform and the race to the bottom in the low-wage labor market by Jane Collins and Victoria Mayer
2010     Red lights : the lives of sex workers in postsocialist China by Tiantian Zheng; Making up the difference : Ecuadorian women and direct selling by Erynn Masi de Casanova
2009     Women's work in early modern English literature and culture by Michelle Dowd; The managed hand : race, gender, and the body in beauty service work by Millann Kang; The women's movement against sexual harassment by Carrie Baker