Working class women -- United States

Records document the League's research and lobbying activities for federal and state legislation and various social action programs. Consist of routine business records, published and unpublished reports, correspondence, and research documents pertaining to equal pay, equal rights, minimum wage, child labor, women workers, migrant workers, and fair labor standards.

These records include correspondence, reports, speeches, notes, printed matter, minutes of meetings, proceedings of the League and of the International Congress of Working Women, biographical material on the League's officers, and correspondence between the National League and its local branches. Major issues covered include the eight-hour day, minimum wage, establishment of sanitary work areas, federal aid to education, civil rights, price controls and social security.

Part 1 of the Bureau's records consist of four series summarizing its work from the time of its predecessor, the Woman in Industry Service, to the mid 1960's and providing regular summaries of the Bureau's activities and policy positions. These are: Monthly reports (1918-1948); Annual summaries (1922-1932); Conferences of the Women's Bureau (1918-1965); and speeches and articles prepared by Women's Bureau officers (1918-1958).

Consists of microfilm copies of the papers of the National and New York Women's Trade Union Leagues and the papers of several leaders within those leagues.