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xiv, 333 pages ; 22 cm |
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| Note |
Cover title: Women, work & protest. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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' Auxiliary 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. |
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Women labor union members -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Sex discrimination against women -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Sex discrimination against women. (OCoLC)fst01114376
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Women labor union members. (OCoLC)fst01178089
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Milkman, Ruth, 1954-
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| Added Title |
Women, work & protest |
| ISBN |
0710099401 (pbk.) |
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9780710099402 (pbk.) |
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