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United States Labor History

Selected Primary Sources

United States Women's Labor History

Lawrence Strike of 1912

Lower East Side Tenement Museum

Mary Harris “Mother “ Jones

National Archives and Records Administration
Pathfinder to Women's History Resources

National Women's Trade Union League of America founded, 1903

19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Women's Right to Vote, 1920
African American Odyssey
African American Perspectives: Material Selected from the Rare Book Collection
AFSCME Women's Labor History
American Women's History
A Research Guide/African American Women
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writer's Project 1936 - 1938
Coalition of Labor Union Women
Code of Federal Regulations
Search Title 29 for the labor code of federal regulations
Emma Goldman Papers
Emma Goldman (1869-1940) stands as a major figure in the history of American radicalism and feminism. An influential and well-known anarchist of her day. Goldman was an early advocate of free speech, birth control, women's equality and independence, and union organization.
Factory Tracts
Lowell, Mass.: Female Labor Reform Association, (1845) -
Frederick Engels (1820 - 1895)
Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
Harvard Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
Subject Guides
Russell, Thomas H. "Girls Fight for Living"
How to Protect Working Women from Dangers Due to Low Wages 1913
Heaven will Protect the Working Girl: Immigrant Women in the Turn of the Century
Industrial Relations Library
Jane Addams Hull House Museum
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels/Proletarians and Communists, from the Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx 1867
For Capital Vol I part IV, The Production of Relative Surplus Value, Ch. 15: Machinery and Modern Industry. Section 3a -- The Employment of Women and Children
Karl Marx: From Capitol Vol I part X
The Working-Day
Karl Marx on Women (1818-1883)
Karl Marx 1847
Lucy Larcom
"Among Lowell Mill-Girls: A Reminiscence" Atlantic Monthly 48 (November 1881)."
Lawrence Strike of 1912
Lucy Parsons: Woman of Will - Industrial Workers of the World Leader
Mary Harris "Mother" Jones
Memories of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
National Archives
Archives Library Information Center
Pathfinder for Women's History Research
National Labor Relations act, 1935 (The Wagner Act)
National Women's Trade Union League of America Founded in 1903

Marjorie Schneider, Bridgeport Brass. 1944

(Image courtesy of the Bridgeport History Center, Bridgeport Public Library
Property of the Bridgeport History Center)

On the Lower East Side: Observations of Life in Lower Manhattan at the Turn of the Century
Portraits of a Ladies' Strike: Perspectives of the Uprising of the 20,000
Recruitment of Female Operatives - an Account from the 1840s
Sabotage - by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College
Supreme Court Decisions 1937 - 1975
U.S. Reports from Volume 299 - 422
Tenement Museum
The Trade Union Woman
United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
United States Government Publishing Office
Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Resources
U.S. Department of Labor Women's Bureau
Established by Congress in 1920, is the only federal agency mandated to represent the needs of wage-earning women in the public policy process.
Virginia Gazette of Williamsburg, March 26, 1767
Wage Labor and Capital, the original 1891 pamphet
Women and Marxism
Women Working, 1800-1930