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Sealskin and Shoddy: Working Women in the American Nineteenth Century Labor Press, 1870-1920

Sealskin and Shoddy: Working Women in the American Nineteenth Century Labor Press, 1870-1920

Schofield, Ann
Schofield, Ann

Hardcover

Series: Contributions in Women's Studies, Book 96

General Gender StudiesWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0313254532
ISBN13: 9780313254536
Publisher: Praeger
Published: Jul 22 1988
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
As industrialization transformed American life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, increasing numbers of women sought employment outside the home and many were drawn into the labor movement. This collection of twenty-five stories published in union journals offers a portrait both of women's experiences as wage-earners and of the conflicts, values, and aspirations that touched their lives in this period of massive social upheaval. Written by reformers, union officials, and popular fiction writers, the stories present an uneasy synthesis of labor movement virtues with domestic ideals of femininity, females assertiveness with female subordination, and moralizing with romantic fantasy.

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