This book examines a three-way interaction among market, state, and family in Chinäs recent market reform. It depicts transformations in urban women¿s experiences with both paid and non-paid domestic work. The book challenges Chinäs free-market approach and demonstrates its negative impacts on women¿s work and family experiences by revealing labor commodification processes and work-to-family conflicts as the state abandons its commitment to public welfare. Using interview data collected from 165 women of three different cohorts in urban China during the 2000-2008 period, this study uncovers the revival of traditional gendered family roles among urban women and men as one of their strategies to resist market brutality