Working Women of Collar City : Gender, Class, and Community in Troy, 1864-86 /

"Why have some working women been successful at organizing in spite of obstacles to labor activity? Under what circumstances were they able to form alliances with male workers?" "Carole Turbin explores these questions by examining the case of Troy, New York, which in the 1860s produce...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Turbin, Carole
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1992.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Collar Laundry Union.
Collar Laundry Union > History > 19th century.
Women labor union members > New York (State) > Troy > History > 19th century.
Laundresses > New York (State) > Troy > History > 19th century.
Textielindustrie.
Werkende vrouwen.
Working class.
Women labor union members.
Laundresses.
Labor.
Travailleurs > New York (État) > Troy > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Travail > New York (État) > Troy > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Lavandieres > New York (État) > Troy > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Working class > New York (State) > Troy > History > 19th century.
Labor > New York (State) > Troy > History > 19th century.
New York (State) > Troy.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: New Questions, New Answers
  • Pt. 1. Work, Family, Community
  • 1. Becoming Collar City: Diversity and Opportunity in a Nineteenth-Century City
  • 2. Good Place to Work: Women's Economic Contribution to Immigrant Families' Place in the Community
  • 3. Activist Leaders and Occasional Militants: Variations in Working Women's Living Arrangements and Labor Activism
  • Pt. 2. Ideology, Consciousness, and Labor Activism
  • 4. "The Mother of Our Success": Class Consciousness, Ethnic Identity, and Gender Consciousness
  • 5. Woman's Work and Woman's Rights: Class, Gender and Political Consciousness
  • 6. "Bona Fide" Trade Union: The Collar Laundresses' Strike and Lockout
  • 7. Fighting Fire with Fire: The Joan of Arc Assembly of the Knights of Labor
  • 8. Autonomy and Subservience: The Strike's Outcome. Conclusion: New Answers, New Questions.

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