This page includes two sections of reference works researchers may find useful,
those specifically on U.S. women and labor, and more general resources
for U.S. history, labor studies, or women's studies. Please select from the
following, or scroll down, for annotated lists of available works:
REFERENCE WORKS ON U.S. WOMEN & LABOR
The following bibliographies, encyclopedias, and guides available at Tamiment provide both general information and guides to sources and scholarship on U.S. women and labor and more focused finding aides for a particular category of sources (e.g., government documents) or subject (e.g., work and family issues).
Z7964.U49 H85 1993 v.2 Huls, Mary Ellen. United States Government Documents on Women, 1800-1990: A Comprehensive Bibliography. Volume II: Labor. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1993. Extensive cataloging, with fairly detailed annotations, of various federal government sources on women and labor. Organized chronologically under twenty subject headings, including, e.g.: Minimum Wage, Women in the Armed Forces, Child Care and Eldercare, the Women's Bureau. Includes individual author and subject indexes.
Tam Ref Z7963.E7 K45 Kennedy, Susan Estabrook. America's White Working-Class Women: A Historical Bibliography. New York: Garland Publishing, 1981. Extensive coverage of both primary sources and secondary works through 1980. Organized into chronological periods with subject divisions (e.g. class, community, World War II, trade unions, etc.).
Tam Ref Z7165.U5 W65 1997 Lilly, Teri Ann, Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes, and Bradley K. Googins. Work-Family Research: An Annotated Bibliography. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997. Reviews recent published research (largely academic journal articles and monographs from the social sciences) on issues concerning women's labor force participation and work and family. Entries categorized under extensive subject headings and sub-headings.
Tam Ref HD6079 .M44 Mikusko, M. Brady. Preliminary Sourcebook of Oral Histories of Trade Union and Working Women in the United States. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Program on Women and Work, Institute of Labor & Industrial Relations, University of Michigan-Wayne State University, 1981. Guide to oral history collections at various U.S. archives, with descriptions of particular interviews. Includes name and union/organization indexes.
HD6095 .S34 1993 Schneider, Dorothy, and Carl J. Schneider. The ABC-CLIO Companion to Women in the Workplace. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 1993. Encyclopedia of contemporary and historical individuals, work groups/occupations, organizations, government programs, court cases, legislation, etc. Cross-referenced and indexed. Also includes a chronology and bibliography.
Tam Ref Z7164.T7 S64 Soltow, Martha Jane, Carolyn Forch, and Murray Massre. Women in American Labor History, 1825-1935: An Annotated Bibliography. East Lansing, Mich.: Michigan State University, 1972. Covers major archival collections and published sources (scholarly, government, and popular studies and selected national, labor, and academic journals and newspapers). Sources organized under: employment; trade unions; working conditions; strikes; legislation; worker education; labor leaders; and supportive efforts (i.e. WTUL, CLUW, etc.). Particularly useful for citations from periodicals.
Tam Ref Z7963.E7 S635 1976 Soltow, Martha Jane, and Mary K. Wery. American Women and the Labor Movement, 1825-1974: An Annotated Bibliography. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1976. Much-expanded revision of 1972 edition, including material from 1935 to 1974 (please see description directly above).
Related Works:
Tam Ref Z7964.U49 B84 1983 Buhle, Mari Jo. Women and the American Left: A Guide to Sources. Boston: G.K. Hall & Co., 1983. Generously annotated primary sources and secondary works (up to one-half to over a page for more notable entries) organized by author/subject within chronological periods under literary genres: histories and general works; autobiographies and biographies; books and pamphlets on the Woman Question; periodicals; and fiction and poetry. Thorough coverage of the New Left and second-wave feminism.
Z7961 .C64 1982 Conway, Jill K., with the assistance of Linda Kealey and Janet E. Schulte. The Female Experience in 18th and 19th Century America: A Guide to the History of American Women. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985. Thematically organized, interpretative bibliography of primary and secondary sources, with critical commentary on the state of secondary literature on various topics. Includes sections on industrialization and women's political activism (with subsection on unions).
Tam Ref Z7964.U49 C67 1985 Cordasco, Francesco. The Immigrant Woman in North America: An Annotated Bibliography of Selected References. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1985. Variety of published primary sources and secondary works included under six categories: bibliographies and general reference; autobiographies, biographies, and reminiscences; workplace and political encounters; immigrant women and progressive reformers; family, immigrant children, and education influences; and miscellanea.
Below are some important electronic databases and print guides for sources and
scholarship in American history, labor studies, and women's studies, available in
Tamiment and/or Bobst Library reference areas. For more extensive listings of
bibliographies, periodical indexes, etc., see related Bobst Library web pages:
Reference Sources in U.S. Labor
Studies and Women's Studies Resources.
Alternative Press Index. Baltimore: Alternative Press Centre, July/Dec. 1969- . "An index to alternative and radical publications." Currently indexing 235 journals, it also has abstracts from twenty of the journals in a separate section. N.B.: It is searchable only by subject. The index is published four times a year. Since 1994, the fourth issue is an annual cumulation. Also available in print (Tam Ref Index AI3 .A4).
America, History and Life. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 1971- . Citations with abstracts for books, dissertations, and articles and reviews from over 2,000 journals. Covers humanities and social sciences work on U.S. and Canadian history, culture, and current affairs. For scholarship before 1971, see Historical Abstracts, a separate index also available in print and CD-ROM.
Dissertation Abstracts International (DAI). Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms, 1861- . Indexes completed dissertations from all accredited North American colleges and universities, and some foreign universities after 1990. Abstracts provided for dissertations completed after 1980.
REF 6 / Z7961 .B32 1986 Ballou, Patricia K. Women: A Bibliography of Bibliographies. Second edition. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1986. An international guide to annotated and unannotated lists of citations, bibliographic essays, literature reviews, library catalogs, and guides to archives and manuscript repositories. Arranged by many specific subject and geographic headings (including US and individual states). Includes name, title, and subject indexes.
REF 6 / Z7961 .C37 1990 Carter, Sarah, and Maureen Ritchie. Women's Studies: A Guide to Information Sources. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1990. Broad, annotated coverage, organized topically and geographically, of reference works, bibliographies, periodicals, and organizations in international women's studies.
M1977.L3 F74 Foner, Philip S. American Labor Songs of the Nineteenth Century. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1975, ©1974. Over three hundred-fifty-page historical guide to and compendium of labor lyrics, with some music and related graphic material included.
FILM REEL 2682 Index to Labor Periodicals. New York: Labor Research Department, Rand School of Social Science, 1926-1927. Continued by Index to Labor Articles. New York: Labor Research Department, Rand School of Social Science, 1928-1953. The only published index of union publications for the years 1941-1950. Available on microfilm as part of the Socialist Collections (Ann Arbor: UMI) in the Tamiment Library.
Tam Ref Shelf Labor-Personnel Index. Detroit: Information Service, 1951-1958. Continued by Employment Relations Abstracts. Detroit: Information Coordinators, Inc., 1959-1972. Work Related Abstracts. Detroit: Information Coordinators, 1973-87; Warren, Mich.: Harmonie Park Press, 1988-1996. A difficult-to-use but crucial source for citations from 250 publications by labor, government, management, and other sources. It follows a unique format so users should read the foreword and use the separately published biannual subject guides.
ML3550 .L418 1965 Lawless, Ray M. Folksingers and Folksongs in America: A Handbook of Biography, Bibliography, and Discography. New rev. ed. with special suppl. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1965. Includes alphabetical listing of singers of ballads and folksongs, collections of ballads and folksongs, folk songs titles and recordings, and essays on folk instruments and folklore societies and festivals. Indexed by names, subjects, and titles.
Tam Ref Shelf The Left Index. Santa Cruz: Left Index, 1982- . A quarterly index to fifty-plus periodicals on the left, which can be important sources of information on contemporary labor struggles and women's activism. Access is by author with indexes for subjects and journal titles, and a separate book review index.
Z 7164 L1 R4 Reynolds, Lloyd George and Charles C. Killingsworth. Trade Union Publications: The Official Journals, Convention Proceedings, and Constitutions of International Unions and Federations, 1850-1941. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1944-45. Three volumes. A subject index to journals and convention proceedings of fifty international union and federations from the collections at Johns Hopkins University, the first university library to make a far- reaching effort to collect union publications. The indexing is not exhaustive but does include letters to the editor.
REF 6 / Z7962 .S79 Studies on Women Abstracts. Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Carfax Pub. Co., 1983- . International compendium of abstracts of books and articles from over 300 journals. Includes author and subject indexes.
REF 6 / Z7962 .W65 Women's Studies Abstracts. Rush, NY: Rush Pub. Co., 1972- . Basic resource for U.S. research on women from the last three decades. Each quarterly issue has around one hundred article with abstracts and several hundred unannotated entries from a broad range of academic, professional, and feminist periodicals.
REF 6 / Z7962.W66 Women's Studies Index. Boston: G.K. Hall & Co., 1990- . Indexes articles from around seventy to eighty-plus popular and academic periodicals (mostly American) on various topics and from many disciplines. Also available on CD-ROM on the 6th floor reference area terminals.
PN1995.9.L28 Z36 1996 Zaniello, Tom. Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff: An Organized Guide to Films about Labor. Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, 1996. An alphabetic listing of feature films and documentaries related to American labor and working-class themes in the twentieth century. Provides detailed summaries and interpretations. Includes subject index of film titles.
Tam Ref HQ1410 .H36 1990 Zophy, Angela Howard, and Frances M. Kavenik, eds. Handbook of American Women's History. New York: Garland Pub., 1990.