Ladies of labor, girls of adventure
Subtitle: working women, popular culture, and labor politics at the turn of the twentieth century
By: Nan Enstad.
Series: Popular cultures, everyday lives
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780231111034; 9780231111027
Subjects: Working class women -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Women consumers -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Fashion -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-251) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: mud in our French heels; title: Cheap dresses and dime novels: the first commodities for working women; title: Ladies of labor: fashion, fiction, and working women's culture; title: Fashioning political subjectivities: the 1909 shirtwaist strike and the "rational girl striker"; title: Ladies and orphans: women invent themselves as strikers in 1909; title: Movie-struck girls: motion pictures and consumer subjectivities; title: Conclusion: a place to dream.