Rima Schultz, Chicago historian spent ten years researching and editing her book Women Building Chicago 1790-1990: A Biographical Dictionary (Indiana University Press, 2001) There are as many “stories” about how researchers, writers and editors collaborated to complete Women Building Chicago … more…
This history of Universal Manufacturing Co., moving from Paterson, NJ to Mississippi to Mexico, is a history of “Free Trade,” as it affected one company and several individual workers.
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In David A. Adler’s Mama Played Baseball, Amy’s father is fighting in World War II and her mother struggles to make ends meet.
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Diana Cohn’s charming Si, Se Puede! tells the story in Spanish and English of the Justice for Janitors Campaign that brought together 8,000 workers in April 2000.
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The Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire of 1911 took the lives of 146 people and shocked the citizens of New York City.
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Joan Dash’s We Shall Not Be Moved takes an in-depth look at the lives of the young women factory workers, mostly between the ages of 16 and 18 who led the “largest strike of women workers ever known in the United States.”
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In The Bobbin Girl, McCully sheds light on the lives of Lowell’s factory girls whom she describes as “the heroines of America’s industrial age” in a gripping, feminist, fact-based story
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