Rights, Not Roses
Subtitle: Unions and the Rise of Working-Class Feminism, 1945-80 (Working Class in American History)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: January 13, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780252025198
Subjects: American history; Trade unions; Women's studies; Work & labour; Labor Unions; Sex Discrimination In Employment; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; USA; Feminism & Feminist Theory; Labor & Employment; Labor & Industrial Relations - Unions; History / United States / 20th Century; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; Equal pay for equal work; Sex discrimination against wom; Sex discrimination against women; Sex discrimination in employme; United States; Women labor union members
First sentence: When she sat down before a tape recorder in 1976 to recount her half-century of experiences in the labor movement, the activist and educator Pauline Newman noted with some dismay the passing of support for women's protective laws.