Common Sense and a Little Fire
Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965
Seiten
2017
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Second Edition
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-3591-0 (ISBN)
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-3591-0 (ISBN)
Twenty years after its initial publication, Annelise Orleck's Common Sense and a Little Fire continues to resonate with its harrowing story of activism, labour, and women's history. Orleck traces the personal and public lives of four immigrant women activists who left a lasting imprint on American politics.
Twenty years after its initial publication, Annelise Orleck's Common Sense and a Little Fire continues to resonate with its harrowing story of activism, labor, and women's history. Orleck traces the personal and public lives of four immigrant women activists who left a lasting imprint on American politics. Though they have rarely made more than cameo appearances in previous histories, Rose Schneiderman, Fannia Cohn, Clara Lemlich Shavelson, and Pauline Newman played important roles in the emergence of organized labor, the New Deal welfare state, adult education, and the modern women's movement. Orleck takes her four subjects from turbulent, turn-of-the-century Eastern Europe to the radical ferment of New York's Lower East Side and the gaslit tenements where young workers studied together. Orleck paints a compelling picture of housewives' food and rent protests, of grim conditions in the garment shops, of factory-floor friendships that laid the basis for a mass uprising of young women garment workers, and of the impassioned rallies working women organized for suffrage.
Featuring a new preface by the author, this new edition reasserts itself as a pivotal text in twentieth-century labor history.
Twenty years after its initial publication, Annelise Orleck's Common Sense and a Little Fire continues to resonate with its harrowing story of activism, labor, and women's history. Orleck traces the personal and public lives of four immigrant women activists who left a lasting imprint on American politics. Though they have rarely made more than cameo appearances in previous histories, Rose Schneiderman, Fannia Cohn, Clara Lemlich Shavelson, and Pauline Newman played important roles in the emergence of organized labor, the New Deal welfare state, adult education, and the modern women's movement. Orleck takes her four subjects from turbulent, turn-of-the-century Eastern Europe to the radical ferment of New York's Lower East Side and the gaslit tenements where young workers studied together. Orleck paints a compelling picture of housewives' food and rent protests, of grim conditions in the garment shops, of factory-floor friendships that laid the basis for a mass uprising of young women garment workers, and of the impassioned rallies working women organized for suffrage.
Featuring a new preface by the author, this new edition reasserts itself as a pivotal text in twentieth-century labor history.
Annelise Orleck is professor of history at Dartmouth College.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 31.01.2018 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Gender and American Culture |
| Zusatzinfo | 41 halftones |
| Verlagsort | Chapel Hill |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 160 x 227 mm |
| Gewicht | 525 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| Wirtschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4696-3591-7 / 1469635917 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4696-3591-0 / 9781469635910 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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