America's working women :  a documentary history, 1600 to the present / 
edited by Rosalyn Baxandall and Linda Gordon with Susan Reverby. 
 - Rev. and updated. 
 - New York :  W.W. Norton,  1995. 
 - xxvii, 356 p. :  ill. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-350) and index. 
<br/><br/>Before 1820. Paid and unpaid labor ; Servitude -- 1820-1865. Slaves and free blacks ; The contested land ; Factory life ; Controversy about women's work -- 1865-1890. Industry ; Coping with new conditions -- 1890-1920. Migrants and immigrants ; Rural labor ; Industrial labor ; The tradition of struggle -- 1920-1940. Nonindustrial work ; The Depression ; Working women organize ; Black women against racism ; Using the state -- 1940-1955. The war ; Feminine mystique and feminine reality -- 1955-Present. Continuing patterns ; Deindustrialization ; The movements ; New initiatives. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0393036537 9780393036534 0393312623 (pbk.) 9780393312621 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women--Employment--History--United States--Sources.<br/>Women--Employment--History.--United States<br/>Mujeres--Empleo--Historia--Estados Unidos--Fuentes.<br/>Mujeres--Empleo--Historia.--Estados Unidos
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HD 6095  / A512 1995 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>331.4