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

Author: Aimee Loiselle
Publication date: 2023

2. Boss Lady: How Three Women Entrepreneurs Built Successful Big Businesses in the Mid-twentieth Century

Author: Edith Sparks
Publication date: 2017

3. Hard Work Is Not Enough: Gender and Racial Inequality in an Urban Workspace

Author: Katrinell M. Davis
Publication date: 2016

4. Nursing and Empire: Gendered Labor and Migration from India to the United States

Author: Sujani K. Reddy
Publication date: 2015

5. Reproduction Reconceived: Family Making and the Limits of Choice after Roe v. Wade

Author: Sara Matthiesen
Publication date: 2021

6. Road to Power: How GM's Mary Barra Shattered the Glass Ceiling

Author: Laura Colby
Publication date: 2015

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

Author: Sharon McConnell-Sidorick
Publication date: 2017

8. Striking Beauties: Women Apparel Workers in the U.S. South, 1930–2000

Author: Michelle Haberland
Publication date: 2015

9. Taking the Heat: Women Chefs and Gender Inequality in the Professional Kitchen

Author: Deborah A. Harris and Patti Giuffre
Publication date: 2015