Women, work and protest : a century of US women's labor history / / edited by Ruth Milkman

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (351 p.)
• Disciplina: 331.4/0973
• Soggetto topico: Women labor union members - United States - History - 20th century; Sex discrimination against women - United States - History - 20th century
• Altri autori: MilkmanRuth <1954->
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 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 plant ; 12 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; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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. 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 c
• Titolo autorizzato: Women, work and protest
• ISBN: 1-136-24768-8; 0-203-10402-1; 1-136-24769-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786384803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge library editions. . -Women's history.