Silk Stockings and Socialism (eBook)

Philadelphia's Radical Hosiery Workers from the Jazz Age to the New Deal

Sharon McConnell-Sidorick (Autor)

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2017
294 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-3296-4 (ISBN)

Infos

The 1920s Jazz Age is remembered for flappers and speakeasies, not for the success of a declining labor movement. A more complex story was unfolding among the young women and men in the hosiery mills of Kensington, the working-class heart of Philadelphia. Their product was silk stockings, the iconic fashion item of the flapper culture then sweeping America and the world. Although the young people who flooded into this booming industry were avid participants in Jazz Age culture, they also embraced a surprising, rights-based labor movement, headed by the socialist-led American Federation of Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers (AFFFHW).In this first history of this remarkable union, Sharon McConnell-Sidorick reveals how activists ingeniously fused youth culture and radical politics to build a subculture that included dances and parties as well as picket lines and sit-down strikes, while forging a vision for social change. In documenting AFFFHW members and the Kensington community, McConnell-Sidorick shows how labor federations like the Congress of Industrial Organizations and government programs like the New Deal did not spring from the heads of union leaders or policy experts but were instead nurtured by grassroots social movements across America.

Autor

Sharon McConnell-Sidorick is an independent scholar and lives in the Philadelphia area.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.2.2017
• Zusatzinfo: 9 halftones, 1 map, 2 tables, notes, index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: 1920s • 1930s. • Alfred Hoffmann • American Federation of Hosiery Workers • American Federation of Labor • Apex Hosiery Company v. Leader and Sherman Anti-Trust Act • Carl Mackley Houses • Congress of Industrial Organizations • Emil Rieve • Fishtown • Flappers • Great Depression in Philadelphia • hosiery • Jazz Age Philadelphia • John Edelman • Kenosha Wisconsin • Kensington • Knights of Labor origins • labor housing • labor martyrs • labor organizing in the South • New Deal • NIRA • Philadelphia • Prohibition • Reading Pennsylvania • silk stockings • sit-down strikes • Socialism • social justice unionism • United Electrical Workers • Uriah Stevens • women's rights • working-class feminism • youth militancy • Youth Movement
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-3296-9 / 1469632969
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-3296-4 / 9781469632964