Breadwinners

Working Women and Economic Independence, 1865-1920

AvLara Vapnek

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Engelska, 2024

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Lara Vapnek tells the story of American labor feminism from the end of the Civil War through the winning of woman suffrage. During this period, working women in the nation''s industrializing cities launched a series of campaigns to gain economic equality and political power. This book shows how working women pursued equality by claiming new identities as citizens and as breadwinners.

Analyzing disjunctions between middle-class and working-class women''s ideas of independence, Vapnek highlights the agendas for change advanced by leaders such as Jennie Collins, Leonora O''Reilly, and Helen Campbell and organizations such as the National Consumers'' League, the Women''s Educational and Industrial Union, and the Women''s Trade Union League. Locating households as important sites of class conflict, Breadwinners recovers the class and gender politics behind the marginalization of domestic workers from labor reform while documenting the ways in which working-class women raised their voices on their own behalf.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-03-18
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:232
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9780252047350
Förlag:University of Illinois Press
Serie:Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History

Utforska kategorier

Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Mikroekonomi inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap

Mer om författaren

Lara Vapnek is a professor of history at St. John's University. She is the author of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: Modern American Revolutionary.

Recensioner i media

"Reads almost like a prequel to When Everything Changed, a history of American women since 1960 by Gail Collins."--The New York Times "A quite nuanced discussion of the impact of gender on the forging of class identities from the Gilded Age into the Progressive Era. . . . Highly Recommended"--Choice"Illuminates the strong connections between labor rights and political rights and enhances our understanding of the promises and the perils of cross-class organizing."--Journal of American History

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments ixList of Abbreviations xi Introduction 1Chapter 1. The Daily Labor of Our Own Hands 11Chapter 2. Working Girls and White Slaves 34Chapter 3. Gender, Class, and Consumption 66Chapter 4. Solving the Servant Problem 102Chapter 5. Democracy Is Only an Aspiration 129 Notes 165Index 209 Illustrations follow page 10