Strike! : The Radical Insurrections of Ellen Dawson /

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This is the first biography of Ellen Dawson (1900-1967), a Scottish woman who participated in three of the largest and most dramatic textile strikes in U.S. history--Passaic, New Jersey; New Bedford, Massachusetts; and Gastonia, North Carolina. She helped organize the National Textile Workers Union...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: McMullen, David Lee
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Florida : University Press of Florida, 2010.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Dawson, Ellen, > 1900-
Women textile workers.
Women labor leaders.
Strikes and lockouts.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
Dirigeantes syndicales > États-Unis > Biographies.
Travailleuses du textile > États-Unis > Biographies.
Strikes and lockouts > United States > History.
Women labor leaders > United States > Biography.
Women textile workers > United States > Biography.
United States.
History.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:This is the first biography of Ellen Dawson (1900-1967), a Scottish woman who participated in three of the largest and most dramatic textile strikes in U.S. history--Passaic, New Jersey; New Bedford, Massachusetts; and Gastonia, North Carolina. She helped organize the National Textile Workers Union and became the first woman elected to a national leadership position in an American textile union. She spent her formative years in the Glasgow area as a young worker during Scotland's most radical period of labor history. With her family she moved first to England and then to the United States in search of economic survival.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (264 pages).
ISBN:9780813042978

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