This book is the story of the New York Women's Trade Union League's efforts to reach New York City's working women and interest them in unionization, to create

In this wonderfully detailed narrative, Daryl Yeap brings us the fascinating story of Hui-lan, Ida and Lucy, daughters and wife of Asia's richest man at the tur

Sisters in the Brotherhoods is an oral-history-based study of women who have, against considerable odds, broken the gender barrier to blue-collar employment in

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

History has, until recently, minimized the role of nuns over the centuries. In this volume, their rich lives, their work, and their importance to the Church are