Women, work and protest [electronic resource] : a century of US women's labor history / edited by Ruth Milkman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Bread before roses : American workingmen, labor unions and the family wage / Martha May -- 2. Labor organizing and female institution-building : the Chicago women's trade union league, 1904-24 / Colette A. Hyman -- 3. Bread and roses revisited : women's culture and working-class activism in the Lawrence strike of 1912 / Ardis Cameron -- 4. The women of the Colorado fuel and iron strike, 1913-14 / Priscilla Long -- 5. Another look at the International ladies' garment workers' union : women, industry structure and collective action / Roger Waldinger -- 6. Problems of coalition-building : women and trade unions in the 1920s / Alice Kessler-Harris -- 7. Survival strategies among African-American women workers : a continuing process / Rosalyn Terborg-Penn -- 8. 'I know which side I'm on' : Southern women in the labor movement in the twentieth century / Mary Frederickson -- 9. 'Where I was a person' : the ladies' auxiliary in the 1934 Minneapolis teamsters' strikes / Marjorie Penn Lasky -- 10. 'We're no Kitty Foyles' : organizing office workers for the congress of industrial organizations, 1937-50 / Sharon Hartman Strom -- 11. Organizing the united automobile workers : women workers at the Ternstedt general motors parts plant / Ruth Meyerowitz -- 12. Women and the united automobile workers' union in the 1950S / Nancy Cabin -- 13. Unionized women in state and local government / Deborah E. Bell -- 14. Women workers, feminism and the labor movement 300 since the 1960s / Ruth Milkman.

Also available in print edition.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.