America's Working Women A Documentary History, 1600 to the Present [Paperback]

A landmark work when it appeared in 1976,I am stunned by the scope and breadth of this splendid new collection of sources. It includes memories, stories, letters, poems and more, gathered from the pens and the hearts of women who lived and worked in these United States. . . . The selections are spell-binding, the introductory material illuminating, and the whole a lesson in how the multicultural and multiracial experience of work in America has been profoundly affected by gender. Alice Kessler-Harris, author of