First published in 1986, Through the Kitchen Window rapidly established itself as one of the most useful and best informed texts in its field. This second and enlarged edition, with a new article dealing with live-in domestic workers, will introduce the book to an even wider readership amongst students, workers, and the public as a whole. The book shows how spurious the distinctions are between the home as private sphere and the outside world as public, and how totally integrated housework and "household" are within political economy.

Meg Luxton is Professor in the School of Social Sciences and the Women's Studies Program at Atkinson College, York University. She is Director of the Graduate Program in Women's Studies and has published widely, with several highly acclaimed books and articles on the women's movement; women's work, paid and unpaid; and relations among work, family, and class. Her current research examines the impact of social policy on informal caregiving practices.

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Harriet Rosenberg is an Associate Professor Emerita of Health & Society at York University.

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Sedef Arat-Koç is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration, and a member of the Yeates School of Graduate Studies, at Ryerson University.

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