Women, work, and protest :a century of US women's labor history /edited by Ruth Milkman.
Description
Bread before roses : American working men, labor unions and the family wage /Martha May --Labor organizing and female institution-building : The Chicago Women's Trade Union League, 1904-24 /Colette A. Hyman --Bread and roses revisited : women's culture and working-class activism in the Lawrence strike of 1912 /Ardis Cameron --The women of the Colorado fuel and iron strike, 1913-14 /Priscilla Long --Another look at the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union : women, industry structure and collective action /Roger Waldinger --Problems of coalition-building : women and trade unions in the 1920s /Alice Kessler-Harris --Survival strategies among African-American women workers : a continuing process /Rosalyn Terborg-Penn --'I know which side I'm on' : Southern women in the labor movement in the twentieth century /Mary Frederickson --'Where I was a person' : the Ladies' Auxilary in the 1934 Minneapolis Teamsters' strikes /Marjorie Penn Lasky --'We're no Kitty Foyles' : organizing office workers for the Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1937-50 /Sharon Hartman Strom --Organizing the United Automobile Workers : women workers at the Ternstedt General Motors Parts Plant /Ruth Meyerowitz --Women and the United Automobile Workers' Union in the 1950s /Nancy Gabin --Unionized women in state and local government /Deborah E. Bell --Women workers, feminism and the labor movement since the 1960s /Ruth Milkman.
xiv, 333 pages ;22 cm
Book Details
Place Published
City
London ;New York
Date Published
1987
Publication Subjects
Women labor union members--United States--History--20th century.
Sex discrimination against women--United States--History--20th century.
Call No.
HD6079.2 .U5 W66 1987
ISBN
0710099401, 9780710099402
LCCN
84027732
Notes
Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographies and index.
Carrier type: volumencrdacarrier
Media type: unmediatednrdamedia
Publication Info: {copy}1985