Women, Work, and Protest A Century of U.S. Women's Labor History Routledge Library Editions: Women's History Series
Coordonnateur : Milkman Ruth
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 case studies of women?s participation in individual unions, organizing efforts, or strikes; others examine broader themes in women?s labor history, focusing on a specific time period; and still others explore the situation of particular categories of women workers over a longer time span.
This collection extends the scope of current research and interpretation in women?s labor history, both conceptually and in terms of periodization ? emphasis is placed on the post-World War I period where the literature is sparse. This book will be valuable for scholars, students and general readers alike.
Preface 1. Bread Before Roses: American Workingmen, Labor Unions and the Family Wage2. Labor Organizing and Female Institution-building: The Chicago Women’s Trade Union League, 1904-243. Bread and Roses Revisited: Women’s Culture and Working-class Activism in the Lawrence Strike of 19124. 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 Action6. Problems of Coalition-building: Women and Trade Unions in the 1920s 7. Survival Strategies Among African-American Women Workers: A Continuing Process8. 'I Know which Side I’m on': Southern Women in the Labor Movement in the Twentieth Century9. '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 Plant12. Women and the United Automobile Worker’s Union in the 1950s13. Unionized Women in State and Local Government14. Women Workers, Feminism and the Labor Movement since the 1960s
Date de parution : 07-2014
15.6x23.4 cm
Date de parution : 10-2012
Ouvrage de 350 p.
15.6x23.4 cm
Thème de Women, Work, and Protest :
Mots-clés :
US Women History; US Labor History; US Labour History; American Labor History; American Women History; women work; women trade unions; CIO Unionist; Extensive Oral History Interviews; IOI; Women's Labor History; Young Man; Kitty Foyles; Married Women; Women's Bureau; United Automobile Workers; Auxiliary Members; Family Wage Ideology; Pay Equity; Pay Equity Issue; Public Unions; Unorganized Women Workers; Women's Trade Union League; Public Sector Unions; Traditional Gender Ideology; Charles Costa; Working Class Housewives; Office Worker Unions; Minneapolis Teamsters; Labor Union Women; Family Wage; UAW Leadership