This paper examines the relationship between health, the technical and social processes of production, and the conditions for reproduction of labor power. The labor process, the family, and the state are seen as key mediating factors in affecting health outcome. The findings suggest that the technical means of production are somewhat more important than the social organization of work in determining health outcomes, and that the process of reproduction is largely shaped by the dictates of life on the production line. The findings also suggest that the women of the workplace are changing as are the concerns of these workers, in their new identity as women industrial workers.