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Women's Trade Union League
- About.com: Women's Trade Union League
- Women's Trade Union League — Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History; free registration required
- Women's Trade Union League — Spartacus Educational
- Founders and Presidents:
- Mary Kenney O'Sullivan — co-founder of Women's Trade Union League and first salaried woman organizer for the American Federation of Labor
- Mary Kenney O'Sullivan
- Florence Kelley — Spartacus Educational
- Jane Addams — Jane Addams founded Hull House. Hull House initiated investigations that led to creation and enactment of first factory laws in Illinois. Several labor unions were organized at Hull-House: Women Shirt Makers, Women Cloak Makers, Dorcas Federal Labor Union, and the Chicago Woman's Trade Union League.
- Jane Addams — Spartacus Educational
- Jane Addams — Encyclopedia Britannica
- Mary McDowell — helped to establish the Women's Trade Union League in 1903 and co-organized the Chicago Stockyards Strike with the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen
- Mary E. McDowell, Angel of the Stockyards
- Rose Schneiderman — founder of the Jewish Socialist United Cloth Hat and Cap Makers' Union in 1903 and president of the Women's Trade Union League. Spartacus Educational
- Rose Schneiderman — National Park Service bio
- Lament for Lives Lost — Rose Schneiderman's address to a gathering at the Metropolitan Opera House following the Triangle Shirtwaist fire in March 1911
- Lillian Wald — co-founder of Women's Trade Union League
- Margaret Robins — WTUL president between 1907 and 1922
- Margaret Haley — co-founder of the WTUL; organizer and official in several teaching unions including the Chicago Teachers Federation, the National Education Assocation, and the American Federation of Teachers
- Grade School Teachers Become Labor Leaders: Margaret Haley, Florence Rood, and Mary Barker of the AFT — by Paula O'Connor, Labor's Heritage, vol. 7, no. 2, Fall 1995
- Margaret Haley — Public Broadcasting System "Only A Teacher" special
- Margaret Haley Calls for Teachers to Organize
- Helen Marot — executive secretary of the WTUL New York branch; leader in the Bookkeepers, Stenographers and Accountants Union and the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union; author of the Handbook of Labor Literature and American Labor Unions.
- American Labor Unions — by Helen Marot
- Agnes Nestor — founder of the International Glove Workers Union and officer from 1903 to 1938
- Agnes Nestor — Encyclopedia Britannica
- Working Her Fingers to the Bone: Agnes Nestor's Story — "History Matters", George Mason University
- Mary Anderson — director of the U.S. Department of Labor Women's Bureau (1919-1944); organizer for the National Boot and Shoe Workers' Union and co-founder of the National Women's Trade Union League
- Mary Anderson — Information Please
- Mary Morton Kehew — first president of the National Women's Trade Union League; formed the Union for Industrial Progress with Mary Kenney O'Sullivan; director of the Women's Educational and Industrial Union of Boston
- Founding mothers of social justice: The Women's Educational and Industrial Union of Boston, 1877-1892 — by Erica Harth, Historical Journal of Massachusetts, Summer 1999
Mother Jones and Other Women in the Mines
Women and Labor in the Textile and Garment Industries
- Women in the Textile/Apparel Industry — from Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History. See also Needle Trades chapter; free registration required.
- Sarah G. Bagley — organized and became president of the Lowell Female Labor Reform Association in 1844. The LFLRA called for improved working conditions and a 10-hour day for workers in the cotton mill in Lowell, MA
- Preamble and Constitution of the Lowell Female Labor Reform Association — from Voice of Industry, February 27, 1846
- Harriet Robinson: Lowell Mill Girls — Modern History Sourcebook
- Women, Work, and Protest in the Ealr Lowell Mills: "The Oppressing Hand of Avarice Would Enslave Us" — by Thomas Dublin, Labor History 16 (1975): 99-116
- "Mill Girls" brochure — Lowell National Historical Park, National Park Service
- Workers and Allies in the New York City Shirtwaist Strike, 1909-1910 — SUNY Binghamton/Internet Archive
- Women and the Lawrence Textile Strike, 1912 — SUNY Binghamton/Internet Archive
- Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire — Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations
- The Uprising of 20,000 and the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire — AFL-CIO
- Women in UNITE History — UNITE
- Maida Springer-Kemp: Pittsburgher instrumental in labor unions in Africa — by Yevette Richards, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 2/28/2000. International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union organizer in the 1930s; first African-American business agent in the ILGWU; first African-American woman to represent the AFL internationally.
- Bessie Abramowitz Hillman — leader of the Halsted Street garment workers' strike in Chicago in 1910-1911; leader with her husband Sidney Hillman of the United Garment Workers Union; executive board member of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
- Bread and Roses Strike of 1912: Lawrence, Massachusetts, Immigrants Usher in a New Era of Unity, Labor Gains, and Women's Rights by Lisa M. Litterio in Labor's Heritage, Spring/Summer 2001.
- Atlanta Washerwomen's Strike — 1881 strike by the Washing Society, an association of African American washerwomen in Atlanta, GA; free registration required
- Atlanta's Washerwomen Strike — AFL-CIO
- Kate Mullaney - Union Maid — one of the founders of the Collar Laundry Union in 1864; appointed assistant secretary and national organizer for women for the National Labor Union in 1868
- Kate Mullaney: A True Labor Pioneer
- The Collar Laundry Union - 1864 to 1870 — first female labor union in the United States
Wobbly Women
Other Famous Women in Labor History
Women's History - General
This webliography was compiled by the AFSCME Information Center. Last updated July 2006
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