The Working Woman. Vol. 4 No. 3. May, 1933.

Contents: May Day Call by Lucy Parsons, Build The Working Woman, May Day 1886 by Grace Hutchins, Mills Shut Down by an American Textile Worker, Plenty of Work by a Soviet Textile Worker, Hard Boiled: The Trial in Decatur by Mary Heaton Vorse, Beyond the Polar Circle, You’re Telling Me!, Happy Children in the Soviet Union by Alice Withrow Field, Our Women Fighters by Edith Berkman, Free Edith Berkman! by Anna Burlap, Defend the Foreign Born!, Woman’s Voice, Childbirth: A Woman’s Problem by Margaret H. Irish, The Role of Women’s Councils in Unemployed Work by Clara Licht, Household by Martha.

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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