men's work' and 'women's work'. 5According to Phillips and Taylor, sexual demarcations were rigidly maintained, even when men and women worked in the same industry. 6Although this is true, demarcation lines were not inflexible over time, and differences were often minute, as the studies in this book show.Bradley, for instance, describes how in hosiery women worked the smaller specialized machines, and men the larger ones.Rostgard shows that in the Danish textile industry there was hardly any difference between male tacklers and female twisters, except for the name.51 See Bradley, H. (1989) Men's Work, Women's Work, Cambridge.52 As I moved away from the Leicester area I was not able to supplement my documentary research with a developed piece of oral history.I did manage to interview two women trade unionists.Norah Gamble of Leicester Outwork Campaign is in her seventies and has a long history of activism in the hosiery workers' union.She also arranged for nine older hosiery workers to fill in a questionnaire for me.Her help and kindness is gratefully acknowledged.For various reasons the other woman I interviewed is simply referred to as Pat.53 Wills, R.