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Books and Where to Find Them
General Titles Juvenile Titles Young Adult Titles First Person Narratives

Published Bibliographic References for full accounts of Worklore's First Person Narratives

For Sadie Frowne, Sweatshop Worker [Women Breaking Barriers]:
"The Story of a Sweatshop Girl," September 25, 1902, in
Workers Speak: Self Portraits, Edited, with an Introduction by Leon Stein and Philip Taft, Arno & The New York Times, New York, 1971.

For Rocca Corresca, Bootblack [Seeking a Better Life]:
"The Biography of a Bootblack," December 4, 1902, in
Workers Speak: Self Portraits, Edited, with an Introduction by Leon Stein and Philip Taft, Arno & The New York Times, New York, 1971.

A Walker in the City cover artFor Alfred Kazin [Seeking a Better Life]:
A Walker in the City by Alfred Kazin
Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1952.

For Willis Hodges [Confronting Racial Bias]:
Free Man of Color: the Autobiography of Willis Augustus Hodges (1849)
Edited, with an Introduction, by Willard B. Gatewood Jr., University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville,1982

For Pauline Newman [Women Breaking Barriers]:
Minutes of Public Hearings from the Fourth Report of the New York State Factory Investigating Commission, (New York State Senate), February 15, 1919.

For Charles M. Skinner [Seeking a Better Life and Women Breaking Barriers]:
Workers for the Trusts: Wages, Housing and Industrial Altruism, by Charles M. Skinner, Brooklyn Eagle Library, No. 41, Vol. XV. No. 5, May, 1900

For Trolley Driver [Facing Change in the Workplace]:
"Lose Their Jobs," The Brooklyn Citizen, Sunday, May 8, 1892.

For Italian woman interviewed by the New York Committee on Women's Work (Mary Van Kleeck) [Women Breaking Barriers]:
Artificial Flower Makers, by Mary Van Kleeck (Secretary, New York Committee on Women's Work), Russell Sage Foundation, 1913.

 

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