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Writing the wrongs : Eva Valesh and the rise of labor journalism /
"Eva McDonald Valesh was one of the Progressive Era's foremost labor publicists. Challenging the narrow confines placed on women, Valesh became a successful investigative journalist, organizer, and public speaker for labor reform." "Valesh was a compatriot of the labor leaders of...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Stealing the trade : the making of a labor journalist
- 2. "An object of solicitude at election time" : the Knights, partisanship, and working-class politics revisited
- 3. Telling tales : labor conflict, class politics, and lawlessness in the great streetcar strike of 1889
- 4. "They walk on my collar in their party organs" : women, partisan speaking, and third-party politics in the late nineteenth century
- 5. From strikes to strings : the trade union woman as journalist, 1892-1895
- 6. "A slim chance of making good" : labor journalism, yellow journalism, and the new woman
- 7. Samuel Gomper's "right-hand man" : Eva Valesh and the gender of labor's political culture
- 8. "Joan of Arc of the women of the laboring classes" : authentic experience, publicity, and women's cross-class alliances
- conclusion : proofing the truth : Eva Valesh's life and labor.