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Women At Work: 
Work History of Women in America
 

Suggestions for further reading

Beecher, Catherine. “Selection from A Treatise on Domestic Economy, 1841” from The American Intellectual Tradition: Volume One 1630-1865. Editors David Hollinger and Charles Capper. NY: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Black Women of Connecticut: Achievements Against the Odds. Hartford: Connecticut Historical Society, 1984.

Clark, Christopher and Nancy A. Hewitt. Who Built America: Volume One. NY: Worth Publishers, 2000.

Connecticut Speaks for Itself: First Hand Accounts of Life in the Nutmeg State from Colonial Times to Present Day. Ed. Shuldiner, David P. and Thomas R. Beardsley. Hartford: Connecticut Humanities Council, 1996.

Donnelly, Mable Collins. The American Victorian Woman: The Myth and the Reality. NY: Greenwood Press, 1986.

Eisler, Benita. The Lowell Offering: Writings by New England Mill Women. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippencott, 1977

Foner, Philip S. The Factory Girls: A collection of writings on the life and struggles in New England factories of the 1840’s by the factory girls themselves, and the story, in their own words, of the first trade unions of women workers in the United States. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1977.

Lerner, Gerda. Black Women in White America: A Documentary History. NY: Vintage Books, 1972.

Wier, Dorothy. Training Opportunities for Connecticut Women. Middletown: Women’s Division Connecticut State Council of Defense, 1918.

Many Women’s History Topics-http://womenshistory.about.com/

Two Essays: Women in the Workplace and Labor Unions http://thehistorynet.com/WomensHistory/

Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame-http://www.cwhf.org