Working Women of Collar City

Gender, Class, and Community in Troy, 1864-86

AvCarole Turbin

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Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

Why have some working women succeeded at organizing in spite of obstacles to labor activity? Under what circumstances were they able to form alliances with male workers?

Carole Turbin explores these and other questions by examining the case of Troy, New York. In the 1860s, Troy produced nearly all the nation''s detachable shirt collars and cuffs. The city''s collar laundresses were largely Irish immigrants. Their union was officially the nation''s first women''s labor organization, and one of the best organized. Turbin provides a new perspective on gender and shows that women''s family ties are not necessarily a conservative influence but may encourage women''s and men''s collective action.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-02-13
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9780252054921
Förlag:University of Illinois Press

Utforska kategorier

Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Mikroekonomi inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap

Mer om författaren

Carole Turbin is a professor emerita at SUNY, Empire State College. She is the author of Souvenir: A Memoir and coeditor of Material Strategies: Dress and Gender in Historical Perspective.

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"By going 'beyond the conventional wisdom' about gender, class, and ethnicity, [Turbin] has found ways to tell us more about the nineteenth-century collar workers of Troy than we possibly could have imagined discovering a decade ago."--Choice

Innehållsförteckning

Front CoverTitleCopyrightContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: New Questions, New AnswersPART ONE: Work, Family, Community1. Becoming Collar City: Diversity and Opportunity in a Nineteenth-Centruy City2. A Good Place to Work: Women's Economic Contribution to Immigrant Families' Place in the Community3. Activist Leaders and Occasional Militants: Variations in Working Women's Living Arrangements and Labor ActivismIllustrationsPART TWO: Ideology, Consciousness, and Labor Activism4. "The Mother of Our Success": Class Consciousness, Ethnic Identity, and Gender Consciousness5. Woman's Work and Woman's Rights: Class, Gender, and Political Consciousness6. A "Bona Fide" Trade Union: The Collar Laundresses' Strike and Lockout7. Fighting Fire with Fire: The Joan of Arc Assembly of the Knights of Labor8. Autonomy and Subservience: The Strike's OutcomeConclusion: New Answers, New QuestionsSelected BibliographyIndexBack Cover

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Material Strategies

Burman, Turbin, Barbara Burman, Carole Turbin

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Souvenir

Carole Turbin

Häftad, 2019

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