Women and the American labor movement
Subtitle: from the first trade unions to the present
By: Philip S. Foner ; foreword by Annelise Orleck
Edition: Second edition.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 612
ISBN-13: 9781608469215
Subjects: Women in the labor movement; Women labor union members; History; Employment; Women
Description: "A comprehensive account of the women who organized for labor rights and equality from the early factories to the 1970’s. This reprint of a groundbreaking history that traces American women’s struggle for freedom, equality and unity in the labor movement follows the triumphs and set backs of this fight from the early Colonial labor associations to the late twentieth century. Women and the American labor movement gives voice to the women who had to battle on the shop floor and in the union movement for dignity and respect and who through courage and tenacity won significant victories in struggle for equal rights"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 569-591) and index.
Table of contents: title: The first trade unions; title: Factory women, their unions, and their struggles; title: The National Labor Union; title: The Knights of Labor; title: The American Federation of Labor; title: The Women's Trade Union League; title: The Waistmakers' revolt; title: Repercussions of the Garment Workers' uprising; title: The Wobblies and the woman worker; title: The Lawrence strike; title: The industrial scene in World War I; title: Women and the trade unions in World War I; title: The Women's Trade Union League in the 1920s; title: The Great Depression; title: The CIO, 1935-1940; title: Government and industry in World War II; title: The trade unions in World War II; title: 1199; title: La Huelga; title: The Coalition of Labor Union Women; title: The current scene and future prospects; title: Appendix: Working Women's 1980 Platform.