Topics Covered
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Types of Work
Agricultural work
Arts
Artists
Authors
Performers
All Women in the Arts
Business
Civic and Public
Labor Leaders
Lawyers
Politicians
Reformers
Social Workers
Teachers and Librarians
All Civic and Public Professions
Clerical and Retail
Office workers
Sales
Telephone operators
All clerical and retail work
Entrepreneurs
Home labor
Industrial
Boot and shoe industry
Candy Industry
Clothing workers
Food industry
Handicraft workers
Machine operators
Metal workers
Miners
Paper box industry
Printers
Textile workers
Tobacco industry
All industries
Inventors
Prostitutes
Religious Work
Clergy
Missionaries
All religious work
Science and Medicine
Nurses
Physicians
Scientists
All Women in Science and Medicine
Service Industry
Domestics
Elevator Operators
Laundry workers
Restaurant and hotel employees
Transport workers
All service industries
Unpaid household work
Conditions
Conduct of Life
Education and Training
Primary
Higher education
Vocational training
Career guidance
All education and training
Living Conditions
Costs of Living
Dress
Family relations
Food
Health
Housing
Recreation
Tenements
All living conditions
Working Conditions
Gender barriers to work
Safety and health
Time and hours of labor
Wages
All working conditions
Other Topics
Anarchism
Child Labor
Consumerism
Feminism
Home economics
Legislation
Court Cases
Hours Legislation
Minimum Wage
All legislation
Mother's pensions
Social Movements
Clubs
Cross-ethnic organizing
Labor unions
Strikes
Women's rights
All organizing and social movements
Philanthropy
Socialism
Sociology
Suffrage
Unemployment
Document Type/Genre
Biography (including autobiography)
Correspondence (including unpublished)
Diaries
Fiction
Government reports
Personal Papers
Poetry
Statistics
Trade Catalogs
Types of Working Women
By Age
Girls
Young women
Middle-aged women
Aged women
By race or ethnic background
African American
White
Immigrants
By class
Working class
Middle class
Upper class