19th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution: Women's Right to Vote, 1920
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
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.
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.
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)
Lower East Side Tenement Museum
National Archives and Records Administration
Pathfinder to Women's History Resources
National Women's Trade Union League of America founded, 1903
(Image courtesy of the Bridgeport History Center, Bridgeport Public Library
Property of the Bridgeport History Center)
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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
United States Equal Employment Commission (EEOC)
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.
Wage Labour and Capital, the original 1891 pamphlet
"Women Working 1800-1930 Open Collections Program"