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Women and the American Labor Movement

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A comprehensive account of the women who organized for labor rights and equality from the early factories to the 1970’s.
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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.

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Price: $25.00
Pages: 632
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Imprint: Haymarket Books
Publication Date: 17 July 2018
Trim Size: 9.50 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781608469215
Format: Paperback
BISACs:

HISTORY / Women, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Industrial relations, occupational health and safety, Feminism and feminist theory

“An indispensable reference work for anyone interested in the history of the women’s movement in the United States.”-Wall Street Review

Philip S. Foner (1910–1994) was a prolific people's historian, whose many works include Organized Labor and the Black Worker, 1619-1981, The Black Panthers Speak, Clara Zetkin: Selected Writings, and The Letters of Joe Hill, all published in new editions by Haymarket Books.

Preface and Acknowledgements
1. The First Trade Unions
2. Factory Women, Their Unions, and Their Struggles
3. The National Labor Union
4. The  Knights of Labor
5. The American Federation of Labor
6. The Women's Trade Union League
7. The Waistmaker' Revolt8. Repercussions of the Garmet Workers' Uprising9. The Wobblies and the Woman Worker10. The Lawrence Strike11. The Industrial Scene in World War I12. Women and the Trade Unions in World War I13. The Women's Trade Union League in the 1920s14. The Great Depression15. The CIO, 1935-194016. Government and Industry in World War II17. The Trade Unions in World War II18. 119919. La Huelga20. The Coalition of Labor Union Women21. The Current Scene and Future ProspectsAppendix: Working Women's 1980 Platform