As a women's and an economic historian of seventeenth- and eighteenthcentury Britain, I welcome further analysis and reassessment, such as Joyce Burnette undertakes, of women, work, and wages during the industrial transition. This topic has fallen out of fashion, and yet there is still much that we do not know. I enjoyed reading Burnette's (2008) book, which challenged and engaged me and made me reflect on the approaches, methods, and evidence that I, as a historian, am persuaded by when it comes to making claims about women and work in the past.