Search Results - "labor feminism"

The other women's movement : workplace justice and social rights in modern America by Cobble, Dorothy Sue

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A power among them : Bessie Abramowitz Hillman and the making of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America by Pastorello, Karen, 1956-

Contents: “…Bound but determined (1889-1908) -- "A mighty hard struggle" in Chicago (1908-1911) -- The founding of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and the search for solidarity (1911-1918) -- Strong on the outside: the union, women, and the struggle to survive (1918-1933) -- Enter Sister Hillman: the runaway campaign years (1933-1937) -- The power of labor feminism: organizing the laundry workers and the Second World War (1937-1946) -- Union women in the postwar years: separate but not equal (1946-1961) -- Creating "a sort of revolution" (1961-1970) -- Epilogue: lifting their spirits.…”
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Rethinking American women's activism by Orleck, Annelise

Contents: “…Prologue: Reflecting on the wave metaphor and the myth of monolithic feminism -- Rethinking the so-called first wave : an extremely brief history of women's rights activism in the U.S. before 1920 -- Civil rights, labor feminism and mother activism from 1920 through the 1940s -- Varieties of feminism in a conservative age -- Equality NOW! …”

Programmed inequality : how Britain discarded women technologists and lost its edge in computing by Hicks, Mar