Ann Crittenden, The Price Of Motherhood, Why The Most Important Job in the World Is Still the Least Valued. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2001.

Lisa Dodson, Don't Call Us Out Of Name, The Untold Stories of Women and Girls in Poor America. Boston: Beacon Press, 1998.

Diane Dujon and Ann Withorn, Editors. For Crying Out Loud, Women's Poverty in the United States. Boston: South End Press, 1996.

Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickeled and Dimed, On (Not) Getting By in America. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2001.

Ferrato, Donna, Living With the Enemy. New York: Aperture,1991.

Bill Ganzel, Dust Bowl Descent. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press,1984.

Spike Gillespie, Surrender (But Don't Give Yourself Away), Old Cars, Found Hope, and Other Cheap Tricks. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003.

Ariel Gore, The Mother Trip, Hip Mama's Guide to Staying Sane in the Chaos of Motherhood. Seattle: Seal Press, 2000.

Ayun Halliday, The Big Rumpus, A Mother's Tale from the Trenches. New York: Seal Press, 2002.

Andrea Modica, Treadwell. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1996.

Frances Fox Piven, Joan Acker, Margaret Hallock and Sandra Morgen, Editors. Work, Welfare and Politics, Confronting Poverty in the Wake of Welfare Reform. Eugene, OR: University of Oregon Press, 2002.

Sara Ruddick, Maternal Thinking, Toward a Politics of Peace. Boston: Beacon Press, 1989.

Joni Seager, The State of Women in the World Atlas, New Edition. New York: Penguin Reference, 1997.

Holly Sklar, Laryssa Mykyta and Susan Wefald, Raise the Floor, Wages and Policies That Work For All of Us. New York: Ms. Foundation for Women, 2001.

Magazines

Brain, Child, the magazine for thinking mothers.

Hip Mama, the magazine for (what else?) hip mamas everywhere.

Websites

Ayun Halliday Mom and writer extraordinaire; check out her book The Big Rumpus and her new travel memoir No Touch Monkey! And Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Late. Ayun's zine East Village Inky is a fine chronicle of the contemporary zeitgeist vis a vis the parenting of small children.

Spike Speaks Mom and writer extraordinaire; check out her articles, available on her site, and books such as Surrender (But Don't Give Yourself Away).

Women's Committee of 100 a manifesto of welfare reform that actually benefits, rather than penalizes, poor families.

Hip Mama website and zine.

Raise the Floor. A website dedicated to minimum-wage reform.

Mothers Ought To Have Equal Rights -- Take this organization's survey and find out how much your unpaid work as a caregiver is really worth.