Daughters of the Shtetl
Subtitle: Life and Labor in the Immigrant Generation
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: September 1991
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780801497599
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; American history: from c 1900 -; Jewish studies; Work & labour; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Labor unions; History: American; Religion - Judaism; Women & Business; USA; Judaism - General; History; Clothing workers; Europe, Eastern; Jewish women; Social conditions; United States; Women clothing workers
First sentence: Seventy-four years old when she was interviewed in the mid-1970s, Mollie Linker, a grandmother living in Chicago, recounted her life history in terms that were familiar to a generation of Jewish immigrant women.