GWS 300: Global Feminisms: Workers and Unions

From Michigan State University Libraries - Digital and Multimedia Center. Includes documents such as books, pamphlets, periodicals, posters, and ephemera. Part of the American Radicalism collection.

An exploration of women's impact on the economic life of the United States between 1800 and the Great Depression.

This collection includes photographs and documents from the Tradeswomen Archives Project, which helps document the growth of the number of women working in construction and other non-traditional fields in Southern California, nationally, and around the world.

The International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union was founded in New York City in 1900 by mostly Socialist immigrant workers who sought to unite the various crafts in the growing women’s garment industry.