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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
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4.15 avg rating — 153,703 ratings
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A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community
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4.15 avg rating — 397 ratings
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Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7,353 ratings
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Autobiography of Mother Jones
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4.13 avg rating — 367 ratings
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We Just Keep Running the Line: Black Southern Women and the Poultry Processing Industry
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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On the Picket Line: Strategies of Working-Class Women during the Depression
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3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Nice Girls and Rude Girls: Women Workers in World War I
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4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement
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4.01 avg rating — 78 ratings
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Demanding Child Care: Women's Activism and the Politics of Welfare, 1940-1971
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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)
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4.01 avg rating — 95 ratings
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Women and the American Labor Movement: From Colonial Times to the Eve of World War I
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4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Rising of the Women: Feminist Solidarity and Class Conflict, 1880-1917
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3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Working Women of Collar City: Gender, Class, and Community in Troy, 1864-86
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Diary of a Shirtwaist Striker
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3.27 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Gendering Labor History
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3.75 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Striking Beauties: Women Apparel Workers in the U.S. South, 1930-2000
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Women Have Always Worked: An Historical Overview
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4.10 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950
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3.71 avg rating — 98 ratings
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Gender at Work: The Dynamics of Job Segregation by Sex during World War II
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3.58 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Women and American Socialism, 1870-1920
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3.80 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present
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4.19 avg rating — 280 ratings
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To 'joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War
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4.18 avg rating — 641 ratings
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Bread and Roses: Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream
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3.95 avg rating — 273 ratings
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Lawrence and the 1912 Bread and Roses Strike
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Mother Jones Speaks: Collected Writings and Speeches
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4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
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"Rights, Not Roses": Unions and the Rise of Working-Class Feminism, 1945-80
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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
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4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Opportunity Denied: Limiting Black Women to Devalued Work
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3.77 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Women Workers in the Industrial Revolution, 1750-1850
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4.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
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We, Too, Are Americans: African American Women in Detroit and Richmond, 1940-54
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4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Women Adrift: Independent Wage Earners in Chicago, 1880-1930
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3.61 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Women Strikers Occupy Chain Stores, Win Big: The 1937 Woolworth's Sit-Down
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4.20 avg rating — 25 ratings
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The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers: From Household and Factory to the Union Hall and Ballot Box
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4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States, 20th Anniversary Edition
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3.88 avg rating — 94 ratings
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Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: Modern American Revolutionary
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3.93 avg rating — 15 ratings
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A Lifetime of Labor: The Autobiography of Alice H. Cook (The Cross-Cultural Memoir Series)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR'S Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience
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4.22 avg rating — 2,199 ratings
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The Lace Makers of Narsapur
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4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Women Workers in Urban India
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Women at Work in Preindustrial France
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Labor Heroines: Ten Women Who Led the Struggle
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Lucy Parsons: An American Revolutionary
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3.87 avg rating — 70 ratings
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A Dolores Huerta Reader
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3.79 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Conversations With Maida Springer: A Personal History Of Labor, Race, and International Relations
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it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Working Women's Music: The Songs and Struggles of Women in the Cotton Mills, Textile Plants, and Needle Trades
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Strikes Have Followed Me All My Life: A South African Autobiography
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Millions Like Us: Women's Lives in War and Peace 1939-1949
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4.16 avg rating — 402 ratings
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Maid in India: Stories of Inequality and Opportunity Inside Our Homes
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3.71 avg rating — 108 ratings
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Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers' Rights At Wal-Mart
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3.81 avg rating — 129 ratings
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Bomb Girls: Britain's Secret Army: The Munitions Women of World War II
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3.86 avg rating — 388 ratings
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"We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now": The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages
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3.66 avg rating — 104 ratings
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Maiden Voyages: Magnificent Ocean Liners and the Women Who Traveled and Worked Aboard Them
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3.73 avg rating — 1,006 ratings
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The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
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4.13 avg rating — 6,586 ratings
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Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour
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4.28 avg rating — 391 ratings
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Eleanor Marx: A Life
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4.33 avg rating — 347 ratings
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The Match Girl and the Heiress
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3.76 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America
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3.96 avg rating — 142 ratings
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The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life and Legacy of Frances Perkins--Social Security, Unemployment Insurance, and the Minimum Wage
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4.22 avg rating — 2,199 ratings
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Working-Class Women in the Academy: Laborers in the Knowledge Factory
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3.96 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Women Workers in Fifteen Countries: Essays in Honor of Alice Hanson Cook
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Bomb Girls: Trading Aprons for Ammo
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3.41 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Philosophical Trends in the Feminist Movement
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4.41 avg rating — 523 ratings
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Carry it On!: A History in Song and Picture of the Working Men and Women of America
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4.75 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Silk Stockings and Socialism: Philadelphia's Radical Hosiery Workers from the Jazz Age to the New Deal
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4.06 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Life as We Have Known It
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3.79 avg rating — 80 ratings
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Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy
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3.83 avg rating — 1,278 ratings
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Rosie the Riveter Revisited: Women, the War, and Social Change
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3.98 avg rating — 43 ratings
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America's Working Women: A Documentary History, 1600 to the Present
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3.86 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Doméstica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence
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3.94 avg rating — 143 ratings
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The Rebel Girl: An Autobiography, My First Life (1906-1926)
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4.23 avg rating — 107 ratings
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Reform, Labor, and Feminism: Margaret Dreier Robins and the Women's Trade Union League
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Holding Up More Than Half the Sky: Chinese Women Garment Workers in New York City, 1948-92
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3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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On Our Way to Oyster Bay: Mother Jones and Her March for Children's Rights
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3.81 avg rating — 163 ratings
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Red Feminism: American Communism and the Making of Women's Liberation
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4.14 avg rating — 35 ratings
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On Strike for Respect: The Clerical and Technical Workers' Strike at Yale University, 1984-85
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4.40 avg rating — 30 ratings
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A Class by Herself: Protective Laws for Women Workers, 1890s-1990s
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3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell); My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement
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4.43 avg rating — 435 ratings
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Song of the Stubborn One Thousand: The Watsonville Canning Strike, 1985-87
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4.25 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline: Factory Women in Malaysia
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3.72 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983
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3.94 avg rating — 837 ratings
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Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America
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3.85 avg rating — 250 ratings
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The Selected Letters of Florence Kelley, 1869-1931
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Producing Workers: The Politics of Gender, Class, and Culture in the Calcutta Jute Mills
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4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Passionate Commitments: The Lives of Anna Rochester and Grace Hutchins
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Strike!: The Radical Insurrections of Ellen Dawson
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3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Indigenous Women, Work, and History: 1940-1980 (Critical Studies in Native History, 16)
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4.05 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Workers and Allies: Female Participation in the American Trade Union Movement, 1824-1976
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Dolores Huerta: Labor Leader and Civil Rights Activist
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3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Moisture of the Earth: Mary Robinson, Civil Rights and Textile Union Activist
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3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Rocking the Boat: Union Women's Voices, 1915-1975
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3.20 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Lives of Agnes Smedley
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4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Women, Community, and the Hormel Strike of 1985-86:
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 18961926 (Revolutionary Pocketbooks)
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4.08 avg rating — 97 ratings
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Agnes Smedley: The Life and Times of an American Radical
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4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Not Automatic: Women and the Left in the Forging of the Auto Workers' Union
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4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 85 ratings
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Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century
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3.81 avg rating — 141 ratings
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Goddess of Anarchy: The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical
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3.74 avg rating — 220 ratings
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Zelda
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4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Kath Williams: The Unions and the Fight for Equal Pay
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