num_pages: 328
description: In this fascinating portrait of Jewish immigrant wage earners, Susan A. Glenn weaves together several strands of social history to show the emergence of an ethnic version of what early twentieth-century Americans called the New Womanhood. She maintains that during an era when Americans perceived women as temporary workers interested ultimately in marriage and motherhood, these young Jewish women turned the garment industry upside down with a wave of militant strikes and shop-floor activism and helped build the two major clothing workers' unions.
language: English
title: Daughters of the Shtetl: Life and Labor in the Immigrant Generation
titlecomplete: Daughters of the Shtetl: Life and Labor in the Immigrant Generation
genres: History, American History, Labor, Read For School, Nonfiction, Judaism, Jewish
ratings_count: 48
awards: awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women's History
publisher: Cornell University Press