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

Author: Jenny Carson
Publication date: 2021

2. 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

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

Author: Joan M. Roberts
Publication date: 2015

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

Author: Ryan Patrick Murphy
Publication date: 2016

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

Author: Jennifer N. Fish
Publication date: 2017

6. Getting Paid While Taking Time: The Women's Movement and the Development of Paid Family Leave Policies in the United States

Author: Megan A. Sholar
Publication date: 2016

7. Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement

Author: Premilla Nadasen
Publication date: 2015

8. Lydia Pinkham: The Face That Launched a Thousand Ads

Author: Sammy R. Danna
Publication date: 2015

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

Author: Anne Zacharias-Walsh
Publication date: 2016

10. Out in the Union: A Labor History of Queer America

Author: Miriam Frank
Publication date: 2014

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

Author: Sharon McConnell-Sidorick
Publication date: 2017

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

Author: Sundari Anitha and Ruth Pearson
Publication date: 2018

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

Author: Nell McShane Wulfhart
Publication date: 2022

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

Author: Hwasook Nam
Publication date: 2021

15. Women's Activism behind the Screens: Trade Unions and Gender Inequality in the British Film and Television Industries

Author: Frances C. Galt
Publication date: 2021