A timeline of US women's labour history, 1824-2009

An interesting selective timeline of women's and women's labour and union struggles in the US.

Taken from http://georgetown.southseattle.edu/documents/LERC/Womens%20Labor%20History%20Timeline%20for%20Website.pdf

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