Women and Work in Hawai`i
Suggested Readings


Amott, T., and J. Matthaei. Race, Gender and Work: A Multicultural Economic History of Women in the United States. Boston: South End Press, 1991.

Beechert, Edward. Aupuni i La'au: A History of Hawai'i's Carpenters Union, Local 745. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i, Center for Labor Education and Research, 1993.

Beechert, Edward. Working in Hawaii: A Labor History. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1985.

Blascoer, Frances. The Industrial Condition of Women and Girls in Honolulu: A Social Study. Honolulu: Paradise of the Pacific Printers, 1912.

Cobble, Dorothy Sue, ed. Women and Unions: Forging a Partnership. Ithaca, New York: ILR Press, 1993.

Dranga, Jane. "Racial Factors in the Employment of Women." Social Process in Hawaii 2 (1936).

Erickson, Ethel. Earnings and Hours in Hawaii Women Employing Industries, no. 177. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1940.

Foner, Philip S. Women and the American Labor Movement: From the First Trade Unions to the Present. New York: Free Press, 1982.

Fuchs, Lawrence H. Hawaii Pono: A Social History. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1961.

Glenn, Evelyn Nakano. Issei, Nisei, War Bride: Three Generations of Japanese American Women in Domestic Service. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986.

Kawakami, Barbara. Japanese Immigrant Clothing in Hawaii, 1885-1941. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1993.

Kessler-Harris, Alice. Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.

Kodama-Nishimoto, Michi; Warren Nishimoto; and Cynthia Oshiro, ed. Hanahana: An Oral History Anthology of Hawaii's Working People. Honolulu: University of Hawaii, Ethnic Studies Oral History Project.

Lamphere, Louise. From Working Daughters to Working Mothers. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.

Lebra, Joyce. Women's Voices in Hawaii. University Colorado Press, 1991.

Milkman, Ruth, ed. Women, Work and Protest: A Century of Women's Labor History. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985.

O'Sullivan, Judith O., and Rosemary Gallick. Workers and Allies: Female Participation in the American Trade Union Movement, 1824-1976. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1975.

Office of the State Director for Vocational Education. "A Status Report on Single Mothers and Displaced Homemakers in Hawaii." 1994.

Peterson, Barbara Bennett, ed. Notable Women of Hawaii. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1984.

Puette, William J. The Hilo Massacre: Hawaii's Bloody Monday August 1st, 1938. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i, Center for Labor Education and Research, 1988.

U.S. Department of Labor. Women's Bureau. 1993 Handbook on Women Workers: Trends and Issues. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1994.

Weiner, Lynn Y. From Working Girl to Working Mother: The Female Labor Force in the United States, 1820-1980. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985.

Wertheimer, Barbara Mayer. We Were There: The Story of Working Women in America. New York: Pantheon Books, 1977.

Zinn, M., and B. Dill. Women of Color in U.S. Society. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994

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