19th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution: Women's Right to Vote, 1920
AFSCME Women's Labor History Links
American Women's History
A Research Guide/African-American Women
Born in Slavery
Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
Coalition of Labor Union Women
Code of Federal Regulations
Search for the labor code of federal regulations.
The 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, woman's equality and independence, and union organization.
Factory tracts
Lowell, Mass.: Female Labor Reform Associates, [1845]-
Frederick Engels (1820-1895)
Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
From Slavery to Freedom
The African American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909
Russell, Thomas H. "Girls fight for a Living"
How to Protect Working Women from the Dangers of Low Wages1913.
Heaven will Protect the Working Girl
Immigrant Women in the Turn of the Century City
The Institute of Industrial Relations Library
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
Proletarians and Communists, from The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx 1867
From 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 Capital Vol I part X
Karl Marx On Women (1818-1883)
Larcom, Lucy.
"Among Lowell Mill-Girls: A Reminiscence." Atlantic Monthly 48 (Nov. 1881)." This link will take you to Buley's database. Click on "Journal" link, then scroll down and select Volume 48, select issue 289, then select Larcom's article to view.
Lower East Side Tenement Museum
Lucy Parsons: Woman of Will — Industrial Workers of the World leader
Memories of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
National Archives and Records Administration
Pathfinder to Women's History Resources
National Labor Relations Act (1935)
National Women's Trade Union League of America founded, 1903
Alba Reynaga
Reference Librarian & History subject specialist
Available by appointment for classes, research consultations or individual student instruction. Contact me at 203-392-5134 or via email at morrisa10@southernct.edu.
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New York Times Historical Archives (Proquest) SCSU Database
Full text articles from the New York Times, 1851-2002 (NOTE: You must log into consuls using your (student) user ID and
pin. Contact us if you have any difficulty doing so.
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 1840's
Sabotage by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, 1916
Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College
Slave Narratives. From the New Deal Network
Supreme Court Decisions 1937 – 1975
United States Equal Employment Commission (EEOC)
United States Government Printing Office
Legislative, Executive, and Judicial resources.
U.S. Department of Labor - Bureau of Labor Statistics
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
Advertisement that appeared in the Virginia Gazette of Williamsburg, March 26, 1767. Run away about the 15 of December last, a small yellow Negro wench ...
Wage Labour and Capital, the original 1891 pamphlet