OUSD | De Tocqueville's Ghost : American History Project

"Wage-Earning Women:
Teaching about Gender and Work in U.S. History"
Karen Sawislak
University of California, Berkeley

Karen Sawislak teaches labor history at UC Berkeley and is author of Smoldering City: Chicagoans and the Great Fire, 1871-1874 read an excerpt from the book. In addition to her teaching duties, Karen Sawislak is also a practicing attorney specializing in labor law. link

Web Links
* Links active as of July 2004

Curt Miller vs. State of Oregon no longer available online
Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The site includes the full text of The Employments of Women; A Cyclopaedia of Woman's Work, 1863.
http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp/
Dept of Labor Fact Sheet: 20 Leading Occupations of Employed Women Full-time Wage and Salary Workers 2003 Annual Averages
http://www.dol.gov/wb/factsheets/20lead2003.htm
Women and Work in the Nineteenth Century - A Text and Web-page Archive
http://www.assumption.edu/users/lknoles/1850/womenandwork.html