BOOKS                                               

• Abramovitz, Mimi.  Under attack, fighting back : women on welfare in the United States.  New ed.    New York : Monthly Review Press, 2000.     [HV699 .A426 2000]
• Albelda, Randy Pearl and Chris Tilly.  Glass ceilings and bottomless pits :  women’s work, women’s poverty.  Boston : South End Press, 1997.      [HV95 .A5988 1997]       Publisher's description.
• Berman, Tressa Lynn.  Circle of goods : women, work and welfare in a reservation community.  Albany : State University of New York Press, 2003.      Publisher's description.
• Cobble, Dorothy Sue.  The other women’s movement : workplace justice and social rights in modern America.  Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2004. Publisher's description, table of contents, introduction.
• Edin, Kathryn and Laura Levin.  Making ends meet : how single mothers survive welfare and lowwage work.  New York : Russell Sage Foundation,  1997.      [HQ759.915 .E34 1997]
• Figart, Deborah; Ellen Mutari; and Marilyn Power.  Living wages, equal wages :  gender and labor market policies in the United States. (Routledge IAFEE advances in feminist economics).  New York : Routledge, 2002.       Publisher's description.    
• Freeman, Carla.  High tech and high heels in the global economy : women, work, and pink-collar identities in the Caribbean.  Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2000.      Publisher's description.
• Global woman : nannies, maids, and sex workers in the new economy.  Edited by Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild.  New York :  Metropolitan Books, 2003. [HD6072 .G55 2003]      Publisher's description.   Table of contents.
• Hays, Sharon.  Flat broke with children : women in the age of welfare reform.  New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.     [ HV95 .H36 2003]      Publisher's description.   View a 30-minute "Faculty Author Presentation" on this book by its author, in Dec. 2003, at the University of Virginia.
• Hochschild, Arlie Russell.  The second shift.  With a new introduction (originally published: 1989).  New  York : Penguin Books, 2003.      [HQ536 .H63 2003]      Publisher's description.
• Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette.  Domestica : immigrant workers cleaning and caring in the shadows of affluence.  Berkeley : University of California Press, 2001.      Publisher's description and Chapter 1.
• Howe, Louise Kapp.  Pink collar workers : inside the world of women’s work.  New York : Putnam, 1977.      [HD6095 .H68 1977]
• Kessler-Harris, Alice.  In pursuit of equity : women, men, and the quest for economic citizenship in 20^th century America.  New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.      [HQ1236.5.U6 K475 2001] Publisher's description.
• Mastracci, Sharon H.  Breaking out of the pink-collar ghetto : policy solutions for non-college women.  Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, 2004.     Publisher's description, table of contents..
• Nelson, Robert L.  Legalizing gender inequality : courts, markets, and unequal  pay for women in America.  New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.      [KF3464 .N45 1999] Publisher's description.
• Reclaiming class :  women, poverty, and the promise of higher education in America.  Edited by Vivyan Campbell Adair and Sandra L. Dahlberg.  Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2003. Publisher's description.
• Rogers, Jackie Krasas.  Temps : the many faces of the changing workplace.  Ithaca, N.Y. : ILR Press, 2000.     Publisher's description.
• Romero, Mary.  Maid in the U.S.A.  10^th anniversary ed.  New York : Routledge, 2002. Publisher's description.
• Without a net : the female experience of growing up working class.  Edited by Michelle Tea.  Emeryville, Calif. : Seal Press, 2003.       [HD6095 .W63 2003]           
• Women and welfare : theory and practice in the United States and Europe.  Edited by Nancy J. Hirschmann and Ulrike Liebert.  New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2001. Publisher's description.
• Women at the margins : neglect, punishment, and resistance.  Edited by Josefina Figueira-McDonough and Rosemary C. Sarri.  New York : Haworth Press, 2002. Publisher's description, table of contents, Chapter 1.        
• Women’s Agenda Conference (2002 : Washington, D.C.).  Women’s agenda : ideas to reform institutions.  Dallas : National Center for Policy Analysis, 2002.      Conference website.
• Zucchino, David.  Myth of the welfare queen : a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist’s portrait of women on the line.  New York : Scribner, 1997.      [HV91 .Z85 1997]   

• Le Jardin Oublie: La vie et l'oeuvre d'Alice Guy-Blache (The Lost Garden: The life and Work of Alice Guy-Blache). Director: Marquise Lepage. National Film Board of Canada, 1995.
• Reel Models: The First Women of Film. Susan and Christopher Koch. Executive producers: Barbra Streisand, Cis Corman, Marc Juris and Jessica Falcon. American Movie Classics, 2000.
• America's First Women Filmmakers: Alice Guy Blache & Lois Weber. VHS. Library of Congress/Smithsonian Video, 1995.
• How to Make An American Quilt. Director: Jocelyn Moorhouse, Writers: Whitney Otto (novel), Jane Anderson. DVD. Universal City Studios, Inc. and Amblin Entertainment, Inc., 1995.
• Antonia's Line. Writer/Director: Marleen Gorris. First Look Pictures, 1995.
• Daughters of the Dust. Writer/Director: Julie Dash. DVD. Geechee Girls, 1991. (The script is available at the Reserve Desk.)
• The Tango Lesson. Writer/Director: Sally Potter. VHS. Sony Pictures Classics, 1997.
• Lost in Translation. Writer/Director: Sofia Coppola. DVD. Universal Studios, 2004.
• The Governess. Writer/Director: Sandra Goldbacher. DVD. Sony Pictures Classics, 1997.
• Sex in the City and Desperate Housewives. Excerpts from TV shows.
• Maya Deren, Vol. 1: Experimental Films, 1943-1959. Mystic Fire Video, 1986.
• Moving On. Writer/Director: Mara Alper. 1997.
• Thank You and Goodnight. Writer/Director: Jan Oxenberg. Red Wagon Films Inc., 1991

REPORTS

• Clampet-Lundquist, Susan, et al.  “Making a way out of no way” : how mothers meet basic family needs while moving from welfare to work.  New York : Manpower Resource Development Corporation, 2003.      [HQ759.915 .M149 2003]      Read it online.
• McCaffery, Edward J.  Women and taxes.  Dallas : National Center for Policy Analysis, 2002. [HD6095 .M234 2002]      Read it online.
• McCrate, Elaine.  Working mothers in a double bind : working moms, minorities have the most rigid schedules, and are paid less for the sacrifice.  Washington, D.C. : Economic Policy Institute, 2002.     [HD6095 .M237 2002]      Read it online.
• O’Neill, June E. and M. Anne Hill.  Gaining ground : women, welfare reform, and work.  Dallas :National Center for Policy Analysis, 2002.     [HD6095 .O63 2002]      Read it online.
• Polit, Denise E.; Andrew S. London; and John M. Martinez.  Food security and hunger in poor, mother- headed families in four U.S. cities.  New York : Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, 2000.      [HD6095 .P655 2000]      Read it online.

VIDEOS

• The double shift.  Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 1996.  (47 min.) [MEDIA VIDEOS HQ759.48  .D653 1996v]      Producer's description.
• Ending welfare as we know it.  New York : Filmakers Library, 1998. (90 min.) Follows six welfare mothers over the course of a year.      [MEDIA VIDEOS HV95 .E63 1998v]    Producer's description.
• Fast food women.  Whitesburg, Ky : Appalshop Film & Video, 1991.  (29 min.) [MEDIA VIDEOS HD6095 .F17 1991v]      Producer's description.
• Gender issues in the U.S.A.  Governors State University, 1993.  (120 min.) [MEDIA VIDEOS HQ1075 .G4646 1993v]     
• Gender issues in the U.S.A.  3rd ed. Governors State University, 2001.  (60 min.) [MEDIA VIDEOS TELECOURSE SWO 482 no. 108]     
• Gender roles : wage gap and work issues.  New York : Insight Media, 1995.     
• Global assembly line. Los Angeles : Educational TV & Film Center, 1986. (58 min.) [MEDIA VIDEOS HD2755.5 .G56 1986v]
• If women ruled the world : a Washington dinner party.  New York : Katz Productions, 2002.  (116 min.)      [MEDIA VIDEOS HQ1122 .I32 2002v]      Website for the video.
• It was a wonderful life : hidden homeless women.  New York : Filmakers Library, 1993. Producer's description..                                
• The power game.  Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 1997.  (47 min.) [MEDIA VIDEOS HQ1154 .P683 1997v]     Producer's description.

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