Author: James Joseph Kenneally
Publisher: Montréal ; St. Albans, Vt. : Eden Press Women's Publications
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Alice Henry
Publisher:
Published: 1915
Total Pages: 358
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The book examines the history of women's labor organization and the relationship of working-class women to the campaign for woman suffrage.
Author: Dorothy Sue Cobble
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2015-01-05
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 0801462487
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Women now comprise the majority of the working class. Yet this fundamental transformation has gone largely unnoticed. This book is about how the sex of workers matters in understanding the jobs they do, the problems they face at work, and the new labor movements they are creating in the United States and globally. In The Sex of Class, twenty prominent scholars, labor leaders, and policy analysts look at the implication of this "sexual revolution" for labor policy and practice. The Sex of Class introduces readers to some of the most vibrant and forward-thinking social movements of our era: the clerical worker protests of the 1970s; the emergence of gay rights on the auto shop floor; the upsurge of union organizing in service jobs; worker centers and community unions of immigrant women; successful campaigns for paid family leave and work redesign; and innovative labor NGOs, cross-border alliances, and global labor federations. Revealing the animating ideas and the innovative strategies put into practice by the female leaders of the twenty-first-century social justice movement, the contributors to this book offer new ideas for how government can help reduce class and sex inequalities. They assess the status of women and sexual minorities within the traditional labor movement and they provide inspiring case studies of how women workers and their allies are inventing new forms of worker representation and power.
Author: Philip Sheldon Foner
Publisher: New York : Free Press
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 656
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An account of the efforts of women to improve their working conditions, often in the face of hostility from employers and the public and the indifference of the male-dominated trade unions, discussing these efforts against the background of the major social, political, and economic events in American history.
Author: Kathleen B. Nutter
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-05-24
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 1317733789
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Necessity of Organization describes Mary Kenney O'Sullivan's struggle to improve labor conditions through trade unionism. Appointed the first woman organizer for the American Federation of Labor in 1892, she went on to be a co-founder of the Women's Trade Union League, formed in 1903 as a cross-class alliance of women workers and their middle- and upper-class allies. The possibilities and limits of trade unionism for women, given the class and gender constraints of the period, are the focus of this book.
Author: Helen Marot
Publisher: New York : H. Holt
Published: 1914
Total Pages: 304
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ruth Milkman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-05-07
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 1136247688
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.