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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Women and the American labor movement Women and the American labor movement Philip Sheldon Foner An account of the efforts of women to improve their working conditions, often in the face of hostility from employers and the public and the indifference of the male-dominated trade unions, discussin… OL10418087W
Brass Valley Brass Valley Jeremy Brecher,Jerry Lombardi,Jan Stackhouse For too many years American workers have been cut off from their own roots. When children go to school, they learn little about the people who work in factories and offices, their movements and their… OL1894630W
Unorganised women labour in India Unorganised women labour in India S. N. Tripathy Contributed articles. OL19604097W
Immigrant girl, radical woman Immigrant girl, radical woman Matilda Rabinowitz Matilda Rabinowitz's illustrated memoir challenges assumptions about the lives of early twentieth-century women. She describes the ways in which she and her contemporaries rejected the intellectual a… OL19723691W
Audacity Audacity Melanie Crowder "A historical fiction novel in verse detailing the life of Clara Lemlich and her struggle for women's labor rights in the early 20th century in New York."-- OL20002534W
Mother Jones Mother Jones Connie Colwell Miller In graphic novel format, tells the story of Mary “Mother” Jones, a leading labor union and child labor activist in the late 1800s and early 1900s. OL5712713W