A lifetime of labor
Subtitle: the autobiography of Alice H. Cook
By: foreword by Arlene Kaplan Daniels.
Contributors: Daniels, Arlene Kaplan, 1930-
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: The Cross-cultural memoir series
Publisher: Feminist Press at the City University of New York
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
Subjects: Cook, Alice Hanson.; Women labor leaders -- United States -- Biography.; Women college teachers -- United States -- Biography.; Feminists -- United States -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: A pioneer in union organizing, worker education, and equal rights for working women, Cook's work took her across the country and around the world, across racial, ethnic, national, gender, and class lines, and across obstacles she refused to accept as impassable. In A Lifetime of Labor, Cook recounts a life of activism, teaching, and research that spanned nearly a century and intersected with progressive movements at home and abroad.

After serving as a member of the faculty of the newly founded School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, Cook continued her pathblazing research with a study of working mothers in nine countries. The rest of her career would be devoted to creating just options for working women - equal opportunity, equal pay for equal work, part-time work options, child care, and other social structures to support true gender equity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-342) and index.