Search Results - "labor feminism"
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The other women's movement : workplace justice and social rights in modern America
Published: Princeton University Press, 2004Contents: Publisher description -Description: xiv, 315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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A power among them : Bessie Abramowitz Hillman and the making of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
Published: University of Illinois Press, 2008Contents: “…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.…”Description: xx, 273 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
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Rethinking American women's activism
Published: Routledge, 2015Contents: “…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! …”Description: xiii, 230 pages ; 23 cm.
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Programmed inequality : how Britain discarded women technologists and lost its edge in computing
Published: MIT Press, 2017Description: x, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.Book