Making Choices, Making Do: Survival Strategies of Black and White Working-Class Women during the Great Depression. by Lois Rita Helmbold (2022). New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. 247 Pages. ISBN: 9781978826434 The Fruit of Her Hands: Jewish and Christian Women’s Work in Catalan Cities. by Sarah Ifft Decker (2022). University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press. 233 Pages. ISBN: 9780271093307 Women, Work and Activism: Chapters of an Inclusive History of Labor in the Long Twentieth Century. edited by Eloisa Betti, Leda Papastefanaki, Marica Tolomelli and Susan Zimmermann (2022). Budapest: Central European University Press. 354 Pages. ISBN: 9789633864418 Deepa Kylasam Iyer Industrial and Labor Relations School, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA Email: dk636@cornell.edu Women’s labor history is often studied as a subset of working-class or social history by focusing on the identity of gender cross-cutting labor questions. While such an approach brings out working women’s role in industrial relations, they fall short of illuminating why the women’s question in labor is interesting in and of itself. In this context, the three volumes reviewed here provide fresh insights not only into working women’s struggle in various historical contexts, but also point to novel methods of examining such research questions. In the first book under review, Making Choices, Making Do, Lois Helmbold examines the brief period between 1925-1940 in the United States to understand how working-class women used strategies to overcome the impact of the Great Depression. The author demonstrates that urban northern working-class women in the United States who practiced similar strategies to survive the economic crisis received different results because of how class, race, age marital and immigration status gave them comparative advantages or disadvantages. The book argues that white women increasingly adopted strategies of immigrant and black women by relying on low paying jobs and reaching out to community organizations for welfare support. Consequently, they unwittingly pushed out older black women who were the regular employees of the type of work white women began to rely on in times of economic crisis. The sources of data used by Lois Helmbold deserve special mention. The author sifts through the relatively unknown interviews conducted by the Women’s Bureau of the US Department of Labor to unearth the employment histories, financial struggles, household roles and survival strategies adopted by working-class women during the Great Depression. This source of data is supplemented with over eight hundred letters and personal correspondences of female domestic workers protesting their exclusion from minimum wage and working hours of the National Industry Act of 1933 . These sources are pieced together to inform the Depression experiences of these workers. What makes the book stand out is the author’s interpretation of what this unexplored question highlights. For example, the interviews viewed the working women as being part of the