Office of the Gender and Woman's Studies Librarian

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Unions across the planet demand better working conditions.

Beyond Norma Rae: How Puerto Rican and Southern White Women Fought for a Place in the American Working Class

Author

Aimee Loiselle

Description

Examines the homogenization of the working class in depictions of the labor movement.

Year

2023

A Matter of Moral Justice: Black Women Laundry Workers and the Fight for Justice

Author

Jenny Carson

Description

Examines the choice of the Laundry Workers Joint Board of Greater New York to affiliate with the Committee for Industrial Organization so as to maintain a strong interracial, gender-inclusive, and militant coalition.

Year

2021

Women in the Sky: Gender and Labor in the Making of Modern Korea

Author

Hwasook Nam

Description

Focuses on factory workers from the 1920s to the present.

Year

2021

Domestic Workers of the World Unite!: A Global Movement for Dignity and Human Rights

Author

Jennifer N. Fish

Description

Based on interviews with activists and six years of fieldwork with the International Labour Organization and the National Domestic Workers Alliance.

Year

2017

Our Unions, Our Selves: The Rise of Feminist Labor Unions in Japan

Author

Anne Zacharias-Walsh

Description

Covers the formation of women-only labor unions beginning in the 1990s.

Year

2016

Striking Women: Struggles and Strategies of South Asian Women Workers from Grunwick to Gate Gourmet

Author

Sundari Anitha and Ruth Pearson

Description

Examines strikes at the Grunwick photo processing plant (1976–77) and the Gate Gourmet airline catering company (2005) in the United Kingdom through the life histories of the participants. Based on interviews with 32 strikers plus trade union officials.

Year

2018

Cracked: How Telephone Operators Took on Canada's Largest Corporation . . . and Won!

Author

Joan M. Roberts

Description

Focuses on unionizing at Bell Canada in the 1970s and 1980s.

Year

2015

The Great Stewardess Rebellion: How Women Launched a Workplace Rebellion at 30,000 Feet

Author

Nell McShane Wulfhart

Description

History of the formation of the Association of Professional Flight Attendants, which used Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, complaints to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and lawsuits to establish laws against gender-based discrimination in the workplace.

Year

2022

Silk Stockings and Socialism: Philadelphia's Radical Hosiery Workers from the Jazz Age to the New Deal

Author

Sharon McConnell-Sidorick

Description

First history of the American Federation of Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers, which embraced cultural changes and radicalism to promote workers' rights.

Year

2017

Deregulating Desire: Flight Attendant Activism, Family Politics, and Workplace Justice

Author

Ryan Patrick Murphy

Description

Covers the 1970s to the present and the convergence of activists for LGBTQ+ rights, women's rights, and workers' rights in the fight for a living wage.

Year

2016