World of Our Mothers

We Were There: The Story of Working Women in America, by Barbara Mayer Wertheimer. New York: Pantheon Books. 427 pp.

America’s Working Women: A Documentary History – 1600 to the Present, compiled and edited by Rosalyn Baxandall, Linda Gordon, Susan Reverby. New York: Random House/Vintage Books. 408 pp.

America’s Immigrant Women: Their Contribution to the Development of a Nation from 1609 to the Present, by Cecyle S. Neidle. New York: Hippocrene Books. 312 pp.

American Women and the Labor Movement, 1825-1974: An Annotated Bibliography, by Martha Jane Soltow, Mary K. Wery. Metuchen, N. J.: Scarecrow Press. 247 pp.

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