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NUDE GIRLS, UNITE!
Produced by Julia Query
Directed
by Julia Query and Vicki Funari
Edited
by Vicki Funari
This
documentary chronicles the efforts of dancers
employed by San Francisco's Lusty Lady Theater to unionize.
Winner of an award at the 2000 San Francisco International Film
Festival.
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Books
of Interest
Autobiography
of Mother Jones by Mary (Mother) Jones.
This is the story of "the most dangerous woman in America," legendary labor
organizer Mother Jones, in her own words.
Jessie
de la Cruz: A Profile of a United Farm Worker by Gary Soto.
"The author effectively personalizes the struggle of farmworkers in a manner
that will enable students to understand and care about their triumphs."
The
Necessity of Organization : Mary Kenney O'Sullivan and Trade Unionism for
Women, 1892-1912 by Kathleen Banks Nutter.
"Book describes Mary Kenney O'Sullivan's struggle to improve labor conditions
through trade unionism. Appointed the first woman organizer for the American
Federation of Labor in 1892, she went on to be a co-founder of the Women's
Trade Union League, formed in 1903 as a cross-class alliance of women workers
and their middle- and upper-class allies. The possibilities and limits of
trade unionism for women, given the class and gender constraints of the period,
are the focus of this book."
History
of Women in Trade Unions (Women in America: from Colonial Times to the 20th
Century) by John B. Andrews.
Women
and the American Labor Movement: From the First Trade Unions to the Present
by Philip S. Foner.
Mother
Jones Speaks: Speeches and Writings of a Working-Class Fighter by Philip
S. Foner.
Includes nearly 40 speeches by Mother Jones, as well as articles by Jones
written for labor and socialist papers of the time, press reports about her
activities, and letters she wrote to other labor and socialist leaders.
Big
Annie of Calumet: A True Story of the Industrial Revolution by Jerry
Stanley.
"In 1913, miners in Calumet, Michigan, fought to a bitter stand-off with
the powerful C & H Mining Company. An inspiration for many strikers was
the wife of a Croatian miner, Annie Clemec. At 6-foot-2 inches, "Big Annie"
led marches seven days a week over the months of the strike, carrying a "massive
American flag on a 10-foot staff." Protesting the brutal working conditions,
low pay, and the fact that "on average, one worker a week died in the mines,
and two were crippled for life every day" at Calumet, Annie's dedication
won the hearts and attention of many citizens and newspapers, who in turn
backed the striking miners. A book for intense teens who might want to change
the world." Review - Amazon.com
Florence
Kelley and the Nation`s Work: The Rise of Women`s Political Culture,
1830-1900 by Kathryn Sklar.
Kelley, a leading resident of Jane Addams' Hull House staff, worked
to improve the plight of adult and children workers.
Battleground: The Autobiography of Margaret A. Haley by Margaret A. Haley.
Haley was a labor activist and the leader of the Chicago Teachers' Federation.
She fought to improve public education and the working conditions of Chicago's
elementary school teachers.
Sticking
to the Union: An Oral History of the Life and Times of Julia Ruuttila
by Amy Kesselman.
"Julia Ruuttila (1907-1991) was a lifelong political activist-she was cradled
in the Industrial Workers of the World, matured in the CIO, tested in the
red-baiting '50s and fully at ease ('too old to get beat up') in popular
struggles of the late 20th century." Publishers Weekly
Conversations With Maida Springer: A Personal History of Labor, Race, and
International Relations by Yevette Richards.
"In a fascinating set of interviews, Yevette Richards has documented Springer's
own feisty voice illuminating major issues of her day, including the foreign
policy of the AFL-CIO, laborite anti-Communism, women's leadership in trade
unions, and black freedom struggles here and abroad."- Eileen Boris, University
of California, Santa Barbara
Maida
Springer: Pan-Africanist and International Labor Leader by Yevette Richards.
Cannery
Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food
Processing Industry 1930-1950 by Vicki L. Ruiz.
Dishing
It Out: Waitresses and Their Unions in the Twentieth Century
by Dorothy Sue Cobble.
Working
Women of Collar City: Gender, Class, and Community in Troy, New York,
1864-86 by Carole Turbin.
Working
Woman from Spillertown: A Memoir of Agnes Burns Wieck by David Thoreau
Wieck.
Women
Organizing: An Anthology by Bernice Cummings, Victoria Schuck.
Women,
Work, and Protest: A Century of U.S. Women's Labor History by Ruth Milkman
(Editor).
Common
Sense & A Little Fire: Women and Working-Class Politics in the United
States, 1900-1965 by Annelise Orleck.
"The life stories of four Jewish immigrant organizers--Rose Schneiderman,
Pauline Newman, Clara Lemlich Shavelson and Fannia Cohn--frame Orleck's history
of women in U.S. working-class movements."
Publishers
Weekly
America's
Working Women: A Documentary History 1600 to the Present
by Rosalyn Baxandall, Linda Gordon, and Susan Reverby Annelise Orleck
(Editors).
Find
Online Biographical Resources re Women and Unions
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Books re Women's Studies on eBay
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Online
Organizations and
Resources
Sources
in U.S. Women's Labor History
AFL-CIO's "Working Women
Working Together"
COYOTE
AFSCME - Women's Labor
History
Women and Labor
Unions - About.com
Exotic Dancers
Alliance
9 to 5 - National Association of Working Women
U.S. Dept. of Labor - Women's
Bureau
Exotic Dancers Association
of Canada
UNITE HERE!
Coalition of Labor Union
Women
The International Union of Sex
Workers
Biographical
Resources re Women and Unions
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