Sources in U.S. Women's Labor History

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This is a finding guide for research materials on the history of American women and labor at the Tamiment Institute Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, prepared by Kathleen M. Barry, NYU graduate student in U.S. history. It is not a comprehensive or definitive listing of materials on this very large topic, but an overview with many particular items listed to show the various types of primary and secondary sources available. If you are seeking a specific source and do not find it here, it may nevertheless be part of the Tamiment/Wagner collections. Check BobCat or consult with staff for further information. Please keep in mind that the holdings, as at any actively collecting library and repository, are subject to change.

Feel free to reproduce and distribute this guide, but please remember to give us credit. Comments, criticisms, and suggestions are welcome. Thank you.

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Contents

• Introduction & General Information Please see first
• Reference Works
• Archival Manuscript Collections
• Archival Nonprint Collections (photographs, oral histories, buttons, posters)
• Periodicals
• Vertical Files
• Studies, Treatises, Union Publications & Vocational Texts, 1845-1970s
• Working Women In Literature & Art
• Memoirs & Autobiographies
• Biographies
• Published Documents & Oral Histories
• Historical Scholarship On U.S. Women And Labor
• Film & Video Histories
• Studies & Guides On Contemporary Issues
• Links To Internet Resources

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