Yale Union Laundry Strike

Further Reading

50 Years of Progress. Salem, Oregon: State of Oregon Bureau of Labor, 1952. https://www.oregon.gov/boli/docs/BOLI%20History%2050%20Years%20of%20Progress.pdf

Henry, Alice, Carrie Chapman Catt, and National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection. The Trade Union Woman. New York ; London: D. Appleton and Company, 1915. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/15024465/.

Johnston, Robert D. The Radical Middle Class: Populist Democracy and the Question of Capitalism in Progressive Era Portland, Oregon. Princeton: Princeton University Press (2003).

McCammon, Holly J. “The Politics of Protection: State Minimum Wage and Maximum Hours Laws for Women in the United States, 1870-1930.” The Sociological Quarterly 36, no. 2 (1995): 217-49. www.jstor.org/stable/4120786.

Mohun, Arwen Palmer. “Laundrymen Construct Their World: Gender and the Transformation of a Domestic Task to an Industrial Process.” Technology and Culture, Vol. 38, No. 1, Special Issue: Gender Analysis and the History of Technology (Jan., 1997): 97–120. www.jstor.org/stable/3106785

O’Hara, Kimberly. “Industrial Welfare of Laundry Laborers Portland, OR, 1919.” Veneer 07, 2009: 37–51.

Tobie, Harvey Elmer. “Oregon Labor Disputes, 1919–1923: II; Government and Wages.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 48, no. 3 (1947): 195–213. www.jstor.org/stable/20611756

Wang, Joan S. “Race, Gender, and Laundry Work: The Roles of Chinese Laundrymen and American Women in the United States, 1850–1950.” In Journal of American Ethnic History, Vol. 24, No. 1 (Fall, 2004), pp. 58–99.

Weeks, Kathi. The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries. London and Durham: Duke University Press, 2011.

Winslow, Cal. “When Workers Stopped Seattle.” In Jacobin, July 2019. Website accessed July 21, 2019: https://jacobinmag.com/2019/07/seattle-general-strike-1919-union-organizing

Woloch, Nancy. Muller v. Oregon: A Brief History with Documents. Boston: St. Martin’s Press/The Bedford Series in History and Culture (1996).