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Women, work, and activism : chapters of an inclusive history of labor in the long twentieth century /

"The thirteen critical and well-documented chapters of Women, Work and Activism examine women's labor struggle from late nineteenth-century Portuguese mutual societies to Yugoslav peasant women's work in the 1930s, and from the Catalan labor movement under the Franco dictatorship to w...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Betti, Eloisa (Editor ), Papastephanakē, Lēda (Editor ), Tolomelli, Marica (Editor ), Zimmermann, Susan (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Budapest ; New York, NY : Central European University Press, 2022.
Colección:Work and Labor - Transdisciplinary Studies for the 21st Century Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Acronyms
  • List of Tables and Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction Thinking the History of Women's Activism into Global Labor History
  • PART ONE TOWARD INCLUSIVE FRAMINGS: WOMEN'S LABOR ACTIVISM IN MEN- AND WOMEN-DOMINATED CONTEXTS
  • Women in the Mutual Societies of Portugal from the End of the Nineteenth Century to the 1930s
  • The Female Staff in the PTT International between Trade Unionism and Feminism from the Early Twentieth Century to the Interwar Period
  • Women and the Labor Movement under a Dictatorship: Comisiones Obreras (Workers' Commissions) in Greater Barcelona during Franco's Dictatorship and the Transition to Democracy (1964-1981)
  • "Traditionally Reserved for Men": Australian Trade Unions and the 1970s Working Women's Campaign for Liberation
  • PART TWO WOMEN IN MOTION: RETHINKING AGENCY AND ACTIVISM AT THE WORKPLACE AND BEYOND
  • The Strike, the Household, the Gendered Division of Labor, and International Networks: Women Auxiliaries and the Ship Repair Workers' Strike (Genoa, 1955)
  • "In Order to Safeguard the Lives of Our Children and Families": Resistance and Protest of Women Workers in the Greek Tobacco Industry, 1945-1970
  • Inside the Factory, Outside the Party-state: The Agency of Yugoslav Women Workers in Late Socialism (1976-1989)
  • Work and the Politics of the Injured Body: Nurse Activism, Occupational Risk, and the Politics of Care in the United States
  • PART THREE HOW THE PERSONAL REVEALS THE POLITICAL: WOMEN ACTIVISTS' BIOGRAPHIES AND BEYOND
  • Women Activists' Relationship to Peasant Women's Work in Yugoslavia in the 1930s
  • Women in the Trade Union Movement and Their Biographies: The Camera del Lavoro (Chamber of Labor) in Milan (1945-1965)
  • French Trade Unionists Go International: The Circulation of Ideas on the Education and Training of Women Workers in the 1950s and 1960s
  • Trade Union Feminism in Lyon: Commissions-femmes as Sites of Resistance and Well-being in the 1970s
  • Working Women on the Move: Genealogies of Gendered Migrant Labor
  • List of Contributors
  • Chapter Abstracts
  • Index