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Writing the Wrongs : Eva Valesh and the Rise of Labor Journalism /

Compelling, insightful, and at times humorous, Writing the Wrongs is a window on the Progressive Era, on social history and the new journalism, and on women's lives and the meaning of class and gender."--Jacket

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Faue, Elizabeth
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2002.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.