JOAN M. JENSEN is professor of history at New Mexico State University. She has published With These Hands: Women Working on the Land (1981), and Decades of Discontent: The Women’s Movement, 1920–1940 (1983) with Lois Scharf.
SUE DAVIDSON is information director of the National Female Advocacy Project. Formerly an editor for The Feminist Press, she served as a co-director of its Women’s Lives/Women’s Work series. She is editor of Justice for Young Women: Close-up on Critical Issues (1982) and co-editor of The Maimie Papers (1977).
NINA ASHER has taught labor and women’s history at the University of Vermont, and is currently teaching history in New York City. Her specialty is female leadership within unions.
AVA BARON teaches sociology at Rider College in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. Her primary research interest is the relationship between women’s work and changes in the labor process.
LAURIE COYLE is a student of film production in San Francisco.
DEBORAH S. GARDNER, a member of The Institute for Research in History in New York, is an archivist-historian. She is co-author of a forthcoming documentary text on the history of low-income housing reform.
HARDY GREEN is a labor writer based in New York. He has taught history at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
GAIL HERSHATTER teaches history at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
EMILY HONIG teaches history at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania.
SUSAN E. KLEPP teaches history at Rider College. Her specialty is the demographic history of Philadelphia.
LOIS SCHARF is director of National History Day in Cleveland. She has published To Work and to Wed: Female Employment, Feminism and the Great Depression (1980).
ANN SCHOFIELD teaches American studies at the University of Kansas at Lawrence. Her primary research interest is American labor press attitudes toward women.
N. SUE WEILER has taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle. She is interested in the problem of aging in an industrial society.
ELIZABETH WEINER is managing editor of a New York City weekly newspaper and writes frequently about labor and urban affairs.