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The Forgotten American Feminists, Translated into Japanese for a special issue on “US-Japanese Working Women’s Organizations,” Bulletin of the Society for the Study of Working Women 48 (August 2005) Toyko, Japan.

"Kissing the Old Class Politics Goodbye', International Labor and Working Class History, 67,
pp. 54-63.

Roundtable Discussion on The Other Women's Movement:Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America, Labor, 2:4, Winter 2005, pp. 43-62.

"A Tiger by the Toenail":The 1970s Origins of the New Working Class Majority, Labor 2:3, Fall 2005,
pp 103-114.

"When Feminism Had Class", in "What's Class Got To Do With It?" American Society in the Twenty-first Century, ed. Michael Zweig (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004), 23-34.

"Halving the Double Day" , The Labor Origins of Work-Family Reform," New Labor Forum 12 (Fall 2003): 63-72.

"On the Edge of Equality’?: Working Women and the US Labour Movement.”(co-author
Monica Bielski Michal) In Gender, Diversity and Trade Unions: International Perspectives, ed. Fiona Colgan and Sue Ledwith. London: Routledge Press, 2002, pp. 232-256.

"Lost Ways of Unionism, Historical Perspectives on Reinventing the Labor Movement" in "Rekindling the Movement, Labor's Quest for Relevance in the Twenty-First Century", ed. Lowell Turner, Harry Katz, and Rick Hurd. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001, pp. 82-98.

"Historical Perspectives on Representing Nonstandard Workers." (co-author Leah F. Vosko). In. Nonstandard Work:The Nature and Challenges of Changing Employment Arrangements",, ed. Francoise Carre, Marianne Ferber, Lonnie Golden, and Steve Herzenberg. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000, pp. 291-312.

"History, Women's Work, and The New Unionism" in "Thought & Action", The NJEA Higher Education Journal, (1999), Vol. XV, No. 2.

“A Spontaneous Loss of Enthusiasm": Workplace Feminism and the Transformation of Women's Service Jobs in the 1970s“. International Labor and Working-Class History 56, (Fall 1999): 23-44.

“The Next Unionism: Structural Innovations for a Revitalized Labor Movement.” Labor Law Journal 48, No. 8 (August 1997): pp. 439-443.

“Lost Ways of Organizing: Reviving the AFL's Direct Affiliate Strategy” Industrial Relations 36, No. 3 (July 1997): 278-301.

“Reviving the Federation's Historic Role in Organizing” Institute for the Study of Labor Organizations; Working Papers, March 10, 1996, pp. 1-43.

“The Prospects for Unionism in a Service Society.” In Working in the Service Society, edited by Cameron MacDonald and Carmen Sirianni. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996, pp. 333-358.

Dorothy Sue Cobble and Michael Merrill. “Collective Bargaining in the Hospitality Industry in the 1980s” In Contemporary Collective Bargaining in the Private Sector edited by Paula Voos. Madison, Wisconsin: Industrial Relations Research Association, 1994, pp. 447-489.

“Making Postindustrial Unionism Possible.” In Restoring the Promise of American Labor Law, edited by Sheldon Freidman, Richard Hurd, Rudolph Oswald, and Ronald Seeber. Ithaca: Cornell Univrsity ILR Press, 1994, pp. 285-302.

“Recapturing Working-Class Feminism: Union Women in the Postware Decades.” In Not June Cleaver: Women and Gender in Postwar America edited by Joanne Meyerowitz. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994, pp. 57-83.

“Organizing the Postindustrial Work Force: Lessons from the History of Waitress Unionism“ Industrial and Labor Relations Review 44, No. 3 (April 1991): 419-36.

Updated: August 2006