| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.1

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Canada and the United States

Kathleen A. Laughlin. Women's Work and Public Policy: A History of the Women's Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor 1945–1970. Boston: Northeastern University Press. 2000. pp. x, 172. $40.00.

Kathleen A. Laughlin's brief history of the United States Women's Bureau between 1945 and 1970 flows easily into an emerging consensus that sees the postwar period not as a reactionary slough for women's concerns but as the seedbed of second-wave feminism. Laughlin's special contribution to this consensus is her focus on the federal government agency charged with proposing remedies for the difficulties faced by women workers. While many historians have relied on the studies of working women produced by the Women's Bureau since its addition to the Department of Labor in 1920, only Judith Sealander, writing twenty years ago, has previously zeroed in on the Bureau itself, and her coverage concluded in 1963. . . .

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