The reader becomes friends with naive young girls who dream of leaving work to raise a family, considered a rite of passage into womanhood. Dreams fall apart when they confront the harsh reality of the work involved in caring for husbands, children and homes, and often an additional burden if they must return to wage work in the factory to make ends meet. As the author describes it, "you sink into his arms" and "end up with your arms in the sink."

The last chapter takes up more strongly the feminist conceptual framework introduced and elaborated throughout the book as the author discusses the politics of reproduction, and the intricate relationships among sexism, racism, and classism. Women, as members of the working class, struggle with their men as they earn nonliving wages. But in the factory, women struggle harder since they earn less than men, and often compensate by buying into the socially approved dream of marriage and children which they initially perceive as status and access to resources controlled by men.

Women sometimes work against each other in this struggle, particularly when they come from different racial backgrounds. "Black" women used here "politically" to include all non-white women are kept one rung down on the social ladder. Racism is a strong and subtle strategy for control by the higher classes because working women have internalized stereotypes of one another, much as they have internalized society's definition of their womanhood. However, women do pull together in the face of many issues, helping one another out on issues such as health and childcare. They mistrust interference from the Government in these matters, preferring for example, to help one another in establishing nurseries when they do have to return to the factory.

Powerful in its analysis of ties that bind women to their traditional roles, this book is also hopeful, ending with a celebration of the strengths and victories of women: "Women struggled to make sense of their lives and to invent a future for their children while, at the same time, they looked at the lives they led and analyzed marriage and the family in ways that enabled them to see the oppressive elements" (p. 235).

This book is not easy reading for the person new to the feminist and socialist critique, and may be unsettling to women in the third world who have not yet looked at the exploitative side of factory work or their own roles outside of the need to struggle alongside their men for survival. Yet it is exactly for that reason that these women should read this book, since it will shed light on the dangerous way in which co-operation can slide into exploitation when roles are not questioned. It is also well worth reading for its intensely human journey into the lives of sisters of all colors in working class England.

All Day Every Day also has implications for an approach to education in the workplace that goes beyond most training (or even union) programs that often focus more on conformity to the organizational status quo than on the adult learner. Here, women informally examine personal issues and connect them with larger economic and social is- sues of which they may already be aware, while lacking a forum for systematic dialogue and/or action. It moves the adult educator toward more effective use of existing networks for learning of an emancipator, as well as an instrumental, nature.

Susan Barsel '85

Victoria J. Marsick is an Assistant Professor of Adult and Continuing Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, and has worked for over 15 years as an adult educator in Asia, Africa and Latin America with both private voluntary organizations and the United Nations.