I'm inclined to go back to pre-industrial revolution days, then wend my way thru Rosie the Riveter, and the government's propaganda aimed at luring women back to housework with labor-saving devices. I'll bet the Dept. of Labor has some of those resources.
-Patricia Raskin
You might find Stephanie Coontz's work to be useful. She has published a great deal on the history of the American family, I'd be surprised if she didn't touch on the topic of work as well.
One of her books is called "The way we never were," and it gets at countering some of the nostalgic idealistic recollections of history to portray the history of the American family in a more accurate manner.
-Amanda Hinjoosa
Liz, I always find great data here: http://www.catalyst.org/
-Deborah Pembleton
I show this 1943 Hiring Guide to students (more info and all the links herehttp://www.snopes.com/language/document/hiringwomen.asp)
I also have a short questionnaire that I use to guide the discussion. (see attachment)
-Susana Velez-Castrillon
I understand that you are looking for specific resources about history and work in relation to gender, race, and class. Although not directly related, I am attaching an article I teach in my organizational psychology class when we discuss the overlap between organizational role and and social identity. There is a section in the chapter where the author discusses how white women and Black women have historically been treated differently when it comes to the idea of "work," and how that history (and the characterizations and stereotypes) continue to influence white women and Black women's relationships to each other (and to white men) today. This may not be anywhere close to the type of resource you are looking for, but I found it helpful the first time I read it.
-Mateo Cruz
There is a good chapter on gender and diversity in Diversity in the Workforce: Current Issues and Emerging Trends (2014) by Marilyn Y. Byrd and Chaunda L. Scott.
The other book that I have used to help get the message home to students is Gender, Work, and Economy (2013) by Heidi Gottfried. This book is more global in perspective.
While I do not think that either book is exactly the answer to your question, they might point you in the direction of some other resources that would help in your quest to bring more meaning to this topic with your millennial students.
-Denise Philpot
There's a great new book by two historians and labor studies faculty at Rutgers and a women's studies professor at Grinnell College that should help out a lot: "Feminism unfinished: A short history of American Women's Movements" by Dorothy Sue Cobble, Linda Gordon, and Astrid Henry, Liveright Publishing Corp, Div of Norton & Co., New York, NY 20014.
Another helpful book is Feminist Thought: A Comprehensive Introduction" by Rosemarie Tong, Westview Press, 1989. The Introduction and Chapter 1 on Liberal Feminism are excellent.
These two books caused the scales to fall from my eyes about a lot of things. Because of them, I have a manuscript offering a critical feminist proposal for women's leadership development that is looking for a home. It is not being well accepted by mainline management journals. Anyone have a suggestion about where it might go? I'd be interested in doing a panel on this at AoM if there are others out there who are willing to take on feminism and postmodernism - topics that are quite unpopular with many management and leadership scholars.
-Carol Watson
You may find this article useful: "A discovery of early labor organizations and the women who advocated work-life balance: An ethical perspective". It is in press at the Journal of Business Ethics. It is currently available as an "online first" publication and it is attached: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10551-014-2428-9#/page-1
-Leon Prieto
A useful (book) resource for UK point of view is:
Man-Made: Why So Few Women Are in Positions of Power by Eva Tutchell and John Edmonds.
-Cordula Barzantny
The end of equality: Work, babies and women's choices in 21st century Australia
A Summers - 2003 - Random House Australia
But if you would like to shake things up - I recommend
Working Life: Arguments about Work in Australian Society Paperback – 1989
by Belinda Probert (Author)
Damned Whores and God's Police: The Colonization of Women in Australia (A Pelican Original)1975
which are available on Amazons.
They both have interesting historical accounts of the struggle of convict and migrant women's place in the workforce
-Amanda Roan
Alice Kessler-Harris' work might be of help. She's a Professor of American History who specializes in the history of women and labor. These books might be especially relevant:
Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States (1982)
Women Have Always Worked: A Historical Overview (1981)
Gendering Labor History (2007)
-Jennifer Berdahl
I am not sure if they are in the second edition but one of the best books I am familiar with is one by Amott---Race and gender and the history of work in USA.
Race, Gender, and Work: A Multicultural Economic History of Women in the United States by Teresa L. Amott, Julie A. Matthae.;
Another wonderful source on the history of race and its infusion into management is a book by Roediger--a labour historian entitled:
Roediger and Esch The production of difference: Race and management in US Labour History
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-production-of-difference-9780199739752?cc=us&lang=en&
I also attach two articles that I co-authored that speak to the history of race (less gender) in management and organizations that may be helpful but they do focus on USA.
-Stella Nkomo
If you're interested in a shorter piece for your class, I have an article coming out inJournal of Management Inquiry, which is an archival analysis that deals with gender and generation in HRM discourses. I'll attach a copy of the page proofs here.
-Kristen Lucas