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Living the revolution : Italian women's resistance and radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945 /

Guglielmo brings to life the Italian working-class women of New York and New Jersey who helped shape the vibrant radical political culture that expanded into the emerging industrial union movement. Tracing the activism of two generations of women who worked in the needle and textile trades, she expl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Guglielmo, Jennifer, 1967-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2010.
Colección:Gender & American culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Women's cultures of resistance in Southern Italy
  • La sartina (the seamstress) becomes a transnational labor migrant
  • The racialization of Southern Italian women
  • Surviving the shock of arrival and everyday resistance
  • Anarchist feminists and the radical subculture
  • The 1909-1919 strike wave and the birth of industrial unionism
  • Red scare, the lure of fascism, and diasporic resistance
  • Community organizing in a racial hall of mirrors.