An early attempt at a history of working class women in the U.S. by Bebel’s translator and Socialist activist Meta Stern Lilienthal, best known by her pen-name ‘Hebe.’

From Fireside to Factory by Meta Stern Lilienthal. Published by The Rand School of Social Science, New York. 1916.

Contents: The Spinning-Wheel, Colonial America, Colonial Women and Their Work, Housekeeping, Domestic Service, Other Occupations, Exceptional Women, Woman’s Place, The Industrial Revolution, Woman Leaves her Fireside, A Pioneer, The Story of Lowell, Sewing Trades, Manufacture of Shoes, Cigar Making, New Fields of Employment, The Modern Woman’s Sphere, Class Consciousness Awakened, Economic Independence, Evils of Factory Labor, The Early Women Workers, First Struggles, Beginnings of Organization, Labor Reform Associations, The Fight for the Ten Hour Day, Trade Unionists and Suffragettes, Knights of Labor, Women’s Trade Union League, The Labor Movement and the Woman Movement. 66 pages.

Rand School of Social Science was founded in 1906 by supporters of the Socialist Party of America in New York City. A worker educations school, in addition to classes a publishing house, research institute, as well as camps and retreats were developed. The school came under the Social Democratic Federation after the split in the Socialist Party in 1936 and changed its name to the “Tamiment Institute and Library” with Its collection forming the basis the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Archives at New York University.

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