Radicals of the Worst Sort: Laboring Women in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1860-1912 - Couverture souple

Cameron, Ardis

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 025206318X ISBN 13 : 9780252063183

Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 1995

Synopsis

Ardis Cameron focuses on the textile workers' strikes of 1882 and 1912 in this examination of class and gender formation as drawn from the experience and language of the working-class neighborhoods of Lawrence, Massachusetts. Using the neighborhood perspective to explore the role of women in worker militancy, Cameron reveals the importance of female networks and organizational life in working-class culture and politics. Unionized women were labeled "radicals of the worst sort" because, in fighting for equality, they also rebelled against traditional economic and sexual hierarchies. Oral histories and detailed maps illuminate the setting and the dramatic story behind the famous Bread and Roses strike of 1912.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Ardis Cameron is a professor of American and New England studies at the University of Southern Maine. She is the author of Unbuttoning America: A Biography of Peyton Place and editor of Looking for America: The Visual Production of Nation and People.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Illinois Press
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 025206318X
• ISBN 13: 9780252063183
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
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• Personne responsable: non disponible