03871oam 2200661I 450 991082225240332120240131142341.01-136-24768-80-203-10402-11-136-24769-610.4324/9780203104026 (CKB)2670000000353031(EBL)1181070(SSID)ssj0000905789(PQKBManifestationID)12405171(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000905789(PQKBWorkID)10926537(PQKB)11627038(OCoLC)842016156(MiAaPQ)EBC1181070(Au-PeEL)EBL1181070(CaPaEBR)ebr10691756(CaONFJC)MIL485285(OCoLC)845254099(OCoLC)897436763(FINmELB)ELB137426(EXLCZ)99267000000035303120180706d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWomen, work and protest a century of US women's labor history /edited by Ruth MilkmanLondon ;New York :Routledge,2013.1 online resource (351 p.)Routledge Library Editions: Women's History ;Volume 27Includes index.1-138-00809-5 0-415-62362-6 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 action6 Problems of coalition-building: Women and trade unions in the 1920s7 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 plant12 Women and the United Automobile Workers' Union in the 1950s13 Unionized women in state and local government; 14 Women workers, feminism and the labor movement since the 1960s; IndexAs 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. Fourteen original essays illuminate the complex relationship between gender, consciousness and working-class activism, and deepen historical understanding of the contradictory legacy of trade unionism for women workers. The contributors take up a wide range of specific subjects, and write from diverse theoretical perspectives. Some of the essays are cRoutledge library editions.Women's history.Women labor union membersUnited StatesHistory20th centurySex discrimination against womenUnited StatesHistory20th centuryWomen labor union membersHistorySex discrimination against womenHistory331.4/0973Milkman Ruth1954-1656247MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910822252403321Women, work and protest4008996UNINA