The Working Woman. Vol. 4 No. 7. October, 1933.

Contents: Women and Fascism by Erna Stamps, No Place for Women by Ellen Kay, We Stand Together by Anna Bloch, Ella May by Edith Berkman, “We Build Unions of Our Choice” by Louise Morrison, N.R.A.–What it Means for Women, Mill Children March by Mother Jones, Cost of Living by Clara Light, You’re Telling Me!, Woman’s Voice: Letters, Hunger Worry Breaks Health by Dr. Lone. N.R.A.: Another Way to Fool Workers.

The Working Woman, ‘A Paper for Working Women, Farm Women, and Working-Class Housewives,’ was first published monthly by the Communist Party USA Central Committee Women’s Department from 1929 to 1935, continuing until 1937. It was the first official English-language paper of a Socialist or Communist Party specifically for women (there had been many independent such papers). At first a newspaper and very much an exponent of ‘Third Period’ politics, it played particular attention to Black women, long invisible in the left press. In addition, the magazine covered home-life, women’s health and women’s history, trade union and unemployment struggles, Party activities, as well poems and short stories. The newspaper became a magazine in 1933, and in late 1935 it was folded into The Woman Today which sought to compete with bourgeois women’s magazines in the Popular Front era. The Woman today published until 1937. During its run editors included Isobel Walker Soule, Elinor Curtis, and Margaret Cowl among others.

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