San Antonio College Library

Lara Vapnek tells the story of American labor feminism from the end of the Civil War through the winning of woman suffrage. During this period, working women in the nation's industrializing cities launched a series of campaigns to gain economic equality and political power. This book shows how working women pursued equality by claiming new identities as citizens and as breadwinners. Analyzing disjunctions between middle-class and working-class women's...

A comprehensive study of the life experiences of women in all areas of the labor force is based on firsthand observations over a period of three years.

"Sheila's Shop invites us into a Southern beauty parlor to meet working-class African American women. We get to know the women individually as they discuss everything from relationships and beauty to politics, equality, race, gender, and class. We hear them speak in their own words about their families and communities and the struggles they face in all areas of life. Sheila's Shop acts as a microcosm of female, working-class, African American society." "Kimberly...

One of the earliest American writers of realistic fiction, Davis wrote about poor and working class women, factory life and social oppression, with the hope of affecting social change.

"[Biography of the] celebrated organizer and agitator, the very soul of protest movements in the early twentieth century."--Jacket.

Monograph on the sociological aspects of woman workers in manual worker employment in the USA - interviews 87 female skilled workers as to their working class background, occupational choice, Motivation, career pattern, human relations problems, job satisfaction, etc., and disusses employment policy implications. References.

"By analyzing the process of work in both the electrical and the automobile industries, the supplies of male and female labor available to each, the varying degrees of labor-intensive work, the proportion of labor costs to total costs, and the extent of male resistance to female entry into the industry before, during, and after the war, Milkman offers a historically grounded and detailed examination of the evolution, function, and reproduction of...