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(0)Catherine Gourley
6) Good girl working: factories, sweatshops, and how women changed their role in the American workforce
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Discusses the girls and women in the industrial workforce of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the reforms and movements that changed their working conditions and the nature of the work itself.
Author
Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Profiles 19th-century women who overcame the disadvantage of being female in order to change the society in which they lived, by promoting temperance, child labor laws, health care, and other causes.