America's Working Women

A Documentary History, 1600 to the Present

Author: Rosalyn Fraad Baxandall
Secondary Author: Linda Gordon
ISBN: 9780393312621

A landmark work when it appeared in 1976, America's Working Women helped form the field of women's studies and transform labor history. Now the authors have enlarged the dimensions of this important anthology; more than half the selections and all the introductory material are new. Spanning the years from 1600 to the present, selections from diaries, popular magazines, historical works, oral histories, letters, songs, poetry, and fiction show women's creativity in supporting themselves, their families, and organizations or associations. Slave women recall their field work, family work, and sabotage. We see Indian women farming, and we also see the white culture coercing Indian women to give up farming. We see women in industry playing a central part in the union movement while facing the particular hazards of women's jobs and working conditions. New selections show the historical origins of today's important issues: sexual harassment, equal pay, "sex work,” work in the underground ec

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date: 1995

Subjects: History / General, History / United States / General, Political Science / Labor & Industrial Relations, Social Science / Women's Studies

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: History)