Format:
1 online resource (351 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415623629
,
9781136247699
Series Statement:
Routledge Library Editions: Women's History Series
Content:
As paid work becomes increasingly central in women's lives, the history of their labor struggles assumes more and more importance. This volume represents the best of the new feminist scholarship in twentieth-century U.S. women's labor history
Note:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Editor's preface -- 1 Bread before roses: American workingmen, labor unions and the family wage -- 2 Labor organizing and female institution-building: The Chicago Women's Trade Union League, 1904-24 -- 3 Bread and roses revisited: Women's culture and working-class activism in the Lawrence strike of 1912 -- 4 The women of the Colorado Fuel and Iron strike, 1913-14 -- 5 Another look at the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union: Women, industry structure and collective action -- 6 Problems of coalition-building: Women and trade unions in the 1920s -- 7 Survival strategies among African-American women workers: A continuing process -- 8 'I know which side I'm on': Southern women in the labor movement in the twentieth century -- 9 'Where I was a person': The Ladies' Auxiliary in the 1934 Minneapolis Teamsters' strikes -- 10 'We're no Kitty Foyles': Organizing office workers for the Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1937-50 -- 11 Organizing the United Automobile Workers: Women workers at the Ternstedt General Motors parts plant -- 12 Women and the United Automobile Workers' Union in the 1950s -- 13 Unionized women in state and local government -- 14 Women workers, feminism and the labor movement since the 1960s -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Milkman, Ruth Women, Work, and Protest Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2012 ISBN 9780415623629
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
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