Title: A lifetime of labor
First published: 1998
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.
Subjects: Women labor leaders, Women college teachers, Biography, Feminists, Biography: general, Women's studies, 20th century, General, Women's Studies - General, Labor Economics (General), Biography & Autobiography, Biography / Autobiography, Women, Biography/Autobiography, United States, Political, History / General, Cook, Alice Hanson, Women labor union members, Labor leaders, Sex discrimination in employment, College teachers
Places: United States
People: Alice Hanson Cook
LC classification: HD8073.C66 A3 l998