Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 363 g
A Century of U.S. Women's Labor History
Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 363 g
Reihe: Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
ISBN: 978-1-138-00809-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
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.
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
Weitere Infos & Material
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