Rights, Not Roses
Subtitle: Unions and the Rise of Working-Class Feminism, 1945-80 (The Working Class in American History)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: December 28, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780252068348
Subjects: American history; Trade unions; Women's studies; Work & labour; United States; Political Science; Labor & Employment; Politics / Current Events; Sex discrimination in employme; History: American; USA; Feminism & Feminist Theory; Labor & Industrial Relations - Unions; History / United States / 20th Century; Women labor union members; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; Equal pay for equal work; Sex discrimination against wom; Sex discrimination against women
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.