The following is a sampling of some of the resources available to track down information on U.S. women and
labor via the World Wide Web. Listed here alphabetically are links to major libraries and archives,
government offices, unions, and other organizations, informational sites on women's history and
labor history, and finding guides for the web.
George Meany Center for Labor Studies.
http://www.georgemeany.org/
The Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives, Catherwood Library,
School of Labor and Industrial Relations, Cornell University.
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/kheelcenter
Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College.
http://www.radcliffe.edu/schles/
Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College, Women's History Manuscripts.
http://www.smith.edu/libraries/ssc/
Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University. Home to the Archives of
Labor and Urban Affairs and the Douglas Fraser Center for Workplace Issues.
http://www.reuther.wayne.edu/
Women's Archives in the Special Collections Library at Duke University.
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/women/
The AFL-CIO's "Working Women Working Together."
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO.
http://www.afscme.org/
American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO.
http://www.aft.org/
American Nurses Association's "Nursing World."
http://www.nursingworld.org/
Association of Flight Attendants, AFL-CIO.
http://www.flightattendant-afa.org/
Communications Workers of America, "The Union for the Information Age."
http://www.cwa-union.org/
COYOTE (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics, a Union of Sex Workers).
http://www.bayswan.org/COYOTE.html
Exotic Dancers Alliance.
http://www.eda-sf.org/
Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees International Union, AFL-CIO.
http://www.hereunion.org/
International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
http://www.teamster.org/
International Union of Electronic, Electrical, Salaried, Machine and Furniture Workers, AFL-CIO.
http://www.iue.org/
National Association of Letter Carriers, AFL-CIO.
http://www.nalc.org/
National Education Association.
http://www.nea.org/
National Organization for Women (NOW).
http://www.now.org/
9 To 5, National Association of Working Women.
http://www.feminist.com/9to5.htm
The Office and Professional Employees International Union, AFL-CIO-CLC.
http://www.opeiu.org/
Screen Actors Guild.
http://www.sag.com/
Service Employees International Union, AFL-CIO.
http://www.seiu.org/
Transport Workers Union of America, AFL-CIO.
http://www.twu.org/
Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE!), AFL-CIO, CLC.
http://www.uniteunion.org/
United Auto Workers International.
http://www.uaw.org/
United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America, "The USA's Rank-and-File Union."
http://www.ranknfile-ue.org/
United Farm Workers, AFL-CIO.
http://www.ufw.org/
United Federation of Teachers.
http://www.uft.org/
United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, AFL-CIO.
http://www.ufcw.org/
Bureau of Labor Statistics Home Page.
http://www.bls.gov/
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
http://www.eeoc.gov/
Federal Labor Relations Authority.
http://www.flra.gov/
Links to Federal and State Departments of Labor, maintained by the National Labor Management Association.
http://www.nlma.org/lbrdepts.htm
Occupational Health and Safety Administration.
http://www.osha.gov/
Women's Bureau, United States Department of Labor Home Page.
http://www.dol.gov/dol/wb/
H-Women Archival and Manuscript Collection Guides. Finding aids and links to sites
describing repositories in the US, Canada, the UK and Ireland.
http://h-net2.msu.edu/~women/manuscripts/
"Labor Links," extensive list of links to union and other labor-related websites.
http://www.geocities.com/WallStreet/3088/labor.htm
"Women's Careers and Professional Organizations," links to over sixty-five sites, maintained
by Feminist.com.
http://www.feminist.com/career.htm
"WSSLINKS: Women and Gender Studies Web Sites," from the Women's Studies Section
Collection Development Committee of the Association of College and Research
Libraries.
http://libraries.mit.edu/humanities/WomensStudies/wscd.html/
The Center for History and New Media Home Page, providing electronic access to
directories, journals, sources, and professional discussions related to
historical issues for students and teachers.
http://chnm.gmu.edu/
"Directory of Graduate Student Employee Bargaining Agents and Organizations," edited by Rachel Lanzerotti,
Melissa Hayes, and Jon Curtiss, at the University of Michigan.
http://www.umich.edu/~umgeo/GradDir/Directory.html
Economic Democracy Information Network, sponsored by UC-Berkeley's Center for Community Economic Research.
http://garnet.berkeley.edu:3333/
Emma Goldman Papers Project, the University of California at Berkeley.
http://sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/Goldman/
"Girls Fight for a Living," an on-line exhibition from the University of
Louisville celebrating Women's History Month, March 1999. A variety of transcribed
historical documents on U.S. women's work.
http://athena.louisville.edu/library/ekstrom/special/girls/girls.html
LaborNet, "online communications for a democratic labor movement."
http://www.labornet.org/
Labor and Working Class History Association (LAWCHA).
http://www.lawcha.org/
National Women's History Project Home Page.
http://www.nwhp.org/
"Oral Histories of WWII Women," a history of Rhode Island Women during World War II
by students in the Honors English Program at South Kingstown High School and published on the web by
Brown University's Scholarly Technology Group.
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/WWII_Women/tocCS.html
Pay Day: Working Class Life and Art. Includes bibliographies and links.
http://www.steamiron.com/payday/
"Recording a Hard Life With Gentle Words: Lowell Factory Women 1835-1850,"
by Dorothy Read. An article, transcribed historical documents, and "webliography."
http://www.bennington.edu/users/students/dotread/millgirls.html
Seattle General Strike Project, Center for Labor Studies at the
University of Washington at Seattle. A guide to this landmark historic event of 1919.
http://faculty.washington.edu/gregoryj/strike/strikehome.htm
"Southern New England Telephone Company: The First Fifty Years, 1878-1928."
An exhibition from the Archives and Special Collections of the Thomas J.
Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut Libraries.
http://www.lib.uconn.edu/DoddCenter/ASC/SnetExhb/Contents.htm
"Triangle Shirtwaist Fire," historical background, analysis, and primary sources, by the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives at Cornell University in cooperation with the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE!).
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/cover.html#toc
Women's History, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Several resources, including "ViVa: A
Bibliography of Women's History in Historical and Women's Studies Journals." a current international bibliography indexing articles
about women's and gender history from around one hundred scholarly journals.
http://www.iisg.nl/~womhist/
"Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930," currently seventeen
editorial projects including over 300 primary documents on the history of women and reform activism,
created by undergraduate and graduate students at the State University of New York
at Binghamton.
http://womhist.binghamton.edu/
"Women in Transportation: Changing America's History," presented by the Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of
Transportation.
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/wit/
"Women in the Workplace" Guide, part of the University of Maryland's Women's Studies Database.
http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/WomensStudies/GenderIssues/WomenInWorkforce/
"Women's Studies: A Research Guide," the New York Public Library.
http://web.nypl.org/research/chss/grd/resguides/women/index.html