Women, Work, and Protest (eBook, ePUB)

A Century of U.S. Women's Labor History
Redaktion: Milkman, Ruth

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136247682
• Artikelnr.: 38404367

Autorenporträt

Ruth Milkman

Inhaltsangabe

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 Ladie's Garment Worker's 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' Strike
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 Worker's Union in the 1950s 13. Unionized
Women in State and Local Government 14. Women Workers, Feminism and the
Labor Movement since the 1960s