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Women Building Chicago 1790-1990: A Biographical Dictionary

Posted on February 1, 2011 by Working Women
Women Building Chicago

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…

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Mollie’s Job: A Story of Life and Work on the Global Assembly Line

Posted on February 1, 2011 by Working Women
Mollie's Job

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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Mama Played Baseball

Posted on January 31, 2011 by Working Women
Mama Played Baseball

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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Sí, Se Puede! Yes, We Can! Janitor Strike in L.A.

Posted on January 31, 2011 by Working Women
Si, Se Puede

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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Fire! The Beginnings of the Labor Movement

Posted on January 31, 2011 by Working Women
Fire! The Beginnings of the Labor Movement

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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We Shall Not Be Moved: The Women’s Factory Strike of 1909

Posted on January 31, 2011 by Working Women
We Shall Not Be Moved

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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The Bobbin Girl

Posted on January 31, 2011 by Working Women
The Bobbin Girl

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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