Women's Labor Histories
1. 
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
by:
Kate Moore
4.16 avg rating — 176,378 ratings 2. 
A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community
by:
Natalia Molina
4.15 avg rating — 422 ratings 3. 
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
by:
David von Drehle
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7,586 ratings 
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We Just Keep Running the Line: Black Southern Women and the Poultry Processing Industry
by:
Laguana Gray
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings 6. 
On the Picket Line: Strategies of Working-Class Women during the Depression
by:
Mary Triece
3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings 7. 
Nice Girls and Rude Girls: Women Workers in World War I
by:
Deborah Thom
4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings 8. 
Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement
by:
Premilla Nadasen
4.03 avg rating — 79 ratings 9. 
Demanding Child Care: Women's Activism and the Politics of Welfare, 1940-1971 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Cooking in Other Women's Kitchens: Domestic Workers in the South, 1865-1960 (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 97 ratings
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Women and the American Labor Movement: From Colonial Times to the Eve of World War I
by:
Philip S. Foner
4.47 avg rating — 15 ratings 12. 
The Rising of the Women: Feminist Solidarity and Class Conflict, 1880-1917
by:
Meredith Tax
3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings 13. 
Working Women of Collar City: Gender, Class, and Community in Troy, 1864-86
by:
Carole Turbin
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings 
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Striking Beauties: Women Apparel Workers in the U.S. South, 1930-2000 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950
by:
Vicki L. Ruiz
3.73 avg rating — 107 ratings 20. 
Gender at Work: The Dynamics of Job Segregation by Sex during World War II
by:
Ruth Milkman
3.50 avg rating — 24 ratings 
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Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present 4.18 avg rating — 281 ratings
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To 'joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War
by:
Tera W. Hunter
4.18 avg rating — 660 ratings 24. 
Bread and Roses: Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream
by:
Bruce Watson
3.94 avg rating — 286 ratings 24. 
Lawrence and the 1912 Bread and Roses Strike
by:
Robert Forrant
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings 
27. 
"Rights, Not Roses": Unions and the Rise of Working-Class Feminism, 1945-80 liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Fighting for the Union Label: The Women's Garment Industry and the ILGWU in Pennsylvania 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
29. 
Opportunity Denied: Limiting Black Women to Devalued Work
by:
Enobong Branch
3.77 avg rating — 13 ratings 30. 
Women Workers in the Industrial Revolution, 1750-1850
by:
Ivy Pinchbeck
4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings 31. 
We, Too, Are Americans: African American Women in Detroit and Richmond, 1940-54 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
32. 
Women Strikers Occupy Chain Stores, Win Big: The 1937 Woolworth's Sit-Down
by:
Dana Frank
4.20 avg rating — 25 ratings 34. 
The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers: From Household and Factory to the Union Hall and Ballot Box
by:
John D. French
4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings 35. 
Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States, 20th Anniversary Edition 3.89 avg rating — 98 ratings
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A Lifetime of Labor: The Autobiography of Alice H. Cook (The Cross-Cultural Memoir Series)
by:
Alice H. Cook
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings 38. 
The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR'S Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience
by:
Kirstin Downey
4.22 avg rating — 2,437 ratings 
41. 
Women at Work in Preindustrial France
by:
Daryl M. Hafter
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 42. 
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Conversations With Maida Springer: A Personal History Of Labor, Race, and International Relations
by:
Yevette Richards
it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating 46. 
Working Women's Music: The Songs and Struggles of Women in the Cotton Mills, Textile Plants, and Needle Trades
by:
Evelyn Alloy
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 47. 
Strikes Have Followed Me All My Life: A South African Autobiography
by:
Emma Mashinini
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 26 ratings 
48. 
Maid in India: Stories of Inequality and Opportunity Inside Our Homes
by:
Tripti Lahiri
3.72 avg rating — 114 ratings 48. 
Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers' Rights At Wal-Mart 3.81 avg rating — 129 ratings
48. 
Bomb Girls: Britain's Secret Army: The Munitions Women of World War II
by:
Jacky Hyams
3.85 avg rating — 408 ratings 48. 
"We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now": The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages
by:
Annelise Orleck
3.69 avg rating — 108 ratings 48. 
Maiden Voyages: Magnificent Ocean Liners and the Women Who Traveled and Worked Aboard Them
by:
Siân Evans
3.74 avg rating — 1,068 ratings 48. 
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
by:
Friedrich Engels
4.13 avg rating — 7,491 ratings 55. 
Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour
by:
Maria Mies
4.31 avg rating — 421 ratings 
55. 
Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America
by:
Dana Frank
3.99 avg rating — 141 ratings 55. 
The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life and Legacy of Frances Perkins--Social Security, Unemployment Insurance, and the Minimum Wage
by:
Kirstin Downey
4.22 avg rating — 2,437 ratings 55. 
Working-Class Women in the Academy: Laborers in the Knowledge Factory 3.96 avg rating — 24 ratings
55. 
Women Workers in Fifteen Countries: Essays in Honor of Alice Hanson Cook
by:
Jennie Farley
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
64. 
Carry it On!: A History in Song and Picture of the Working Men and Women of America
by:
Pete Seeger
4.69 avg rating — 16 ratings 64. 
Silk Stockings and Socialism: Philadelphia's Radical Hosiery Workers from the Jazz Age to the New Deal really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 18 ratings
64. 
Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy 3.84 avg rating — 1,276 ratings
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Rosie the Riveter Revisited: Women, the War, and Social Change really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 43 ratings
69. 
America's Working Women: A Documentary History, 1600 to the Present 3.86 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Doméstica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence 3.95 avg rating — 142 ratings
69. 
Reform, Labor, and Feminism: Margaret Dreier Robins and the Women's Trade Union League liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
73. 
Holding Up More Than Half the Sky: Chinese Women Garment Workers in New York City, 1948-92
by:
Xiaolan Bao
3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings 73. 
On Our Way to Oyster Bay: Mother Jones and Her March for Children's Rights
by:
Monica Kulling
3.80 avg rating — 165 ratings 73. 
Red Feminism: American Communism and the Making of Women's Liberation
by:
Kate Weigand
4.23 avg rating — 39 ratings 73. 
On Strike for Respect: The Clerical and Technical Workers' Strike at Yale University, 1984-85
by:
Toni Gilpin
4.42 avg rating — 31 ratings 77. 
A Class by Herself: Protective Laws for Women Workers, 1890s-1990s
by:
Nancy Woloch
3.53 avg rating — 15 ratings 77. 
Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell); My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement
by:
Jane F. McAlevey
4.43 avg rating — 470 ratings 79. 
Song of the Stubborn One Thousand: The Watsonville Canning Strike, 1985-87
by:
Peter Shapiro
4.18 avg rating — 22 ratings 79. 
Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline: Factory Women in Malaysia
by:
Aihwa Ong
3.75 avg rating — 85 ratings 81. 
Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 3.93 avg rating — 1,057 ratings
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The Selected Letters of Florence Kelley, 1869-1931
by:
Florence Kelley
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 84. 
Producing Workers: The Politics of Gender, Class, and Culture in the Calcutta Jute Mills
by:
Leela Fernandes
4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings 84. 
Passionate Commitments: The Lives of Anna Rochester and Grace Hutchins
by:
Julia M. Allen
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
86. 
Indigenous Women, Work, and History: 1940-1980 (Critical Studies in Native History, 16) 3.90 avg rating — 20 ratings
88. 
Workers and Allies: Female Participation in the American Trade Union Movement, 1824-1976 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
88. 
Dolores Huerta: Labor Leader and Civil Rights Activist
by:
Robin S. Doak
3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings 88. 
Moisture of the Earth: Mary Robinson, Civil Rights and Textile Union Activist
by:
Fran Leeper Buss
3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings 91. 
94. 
Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 18961926 (Revolutionary Pocketbooks)
by:
Emma Goldman
4.10 avg rating — 109 ratings 
94. 
Not Automatic: Women and the Left in the Forging of the Auto Workers' Union
by:
Sol Dollinger
4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings 97. 
Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965
by:
Annelise Orleck
4.01 avg rating — 91 ratings 97. 
Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century
by:
Howard Zinn
3.81 avg rating — 142 ratings 97. 
Goddess of Anarchy: The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical 3.77 avg rating — 248 ratings
