The new women's labor history / special issue editors: Eileen Boris, coordinator ; with Joan Sangster ... [et al.] - [Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2006] - 140 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm. - Labor : studies in working-class history of the Americas ; v. 3, no. 3, Fall 2006 .

"These articles are revisions of papers from the 2005 international conference "Labouring Feminism and Feminist Working-Class History in North America and Beyond," held at the University of Toronto, of which "Labor" was a cosponsor"--P. 1.

Includes bibliographical references.

Beyond laments and eulogies: reimaginings / Then there's the nurse / The wages of patriarchy: some thoughts about the continuing relevance of class and gender / The practice of everyday colonialism: indigenous women at work in the hop fields and tourist industry of Puget Sound / Politicizing the laboring body: working families, death, and burial in Winnipeg's Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 / "And I feel like I'm dying from mining gold: disability, gender, and the mining community, 1920-1950 / "Where would the Negro women apply for work?": gender, race, and labor in wartime Memphis / "Too glamorous to be considered workers": flight attendants and pink-collar activism in mid-twentieth-century America / Eileen Boris -- Cortney Davis -- Allice Kessler-Harris -- Paige Raibmon -- Esylit Jones -- Nancy M. Forestell -- Laurie B. Green -- Kathleen M. Barry.

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Working class women--History.--North America
Mujeres trabajadoras --Historia--América del Norte
Labor--History.--North America
Empleo --América del Norte
Feminism--History.--North America
Feminismo--América del Norte
Social classes--History.--North America
Clases sociales--América del Norte

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