"With the publication of the present volume, there will finally be available a representative selection of the thoughts of the leading woman of European socialism."--Angela Davis, from the introduction

"Clara Zetkin's arguments in support of women workers contain a logic which can be effectively employed today."--Angela Davis, from the foreword to the 1984 edition

Clara Zetkin was a German Marxist theorist who organized the first International Women's Day.

Philip S. Foner was one of the most prominent Marxist historians in the United States.

Angela Davis is a world-renowned scholar and author of "Are Prisons Obsolete?"

This reprint of a groundbreaking history that traces American women's struggle for freedom, equality and unity in the labour movement follows the triumphs and set backs of this fight from the early Colonial labour associations to the late twentieth century. Women and the American Labour Movement gives voice to the women who had to battle on the shop floor and in the union movement for dignity and respect and who through courage and tenacity won significant victories in struggle for equal rights.