The Rising of the Women: Feminist Solidarity and Class Conflict, 1880-1917 Tax Meredith
How working-class socialist women changed the course of American historyIn this landmark study of American labor history, Meredith Tax charts the actions of women in working-class, feminist, and…
Specifikacia The Rising of the Women: Feminist Solidarity and Class Conflict, 1880-1917 Tax Meredith
How working-class socialist women changed the course of American historyIn this landmark study of American labor history, Meredith Tax charts the actions of women in working-class, feminist, and socialist movements between 1880 and 1917 in the USA. Caught between the hostility of male trade unionists, the chauvinism of male socialist organizers, and the assumptions of middle-class feminists, women workers forged their own demands for economic and political justice in the industrializing landscape of North America. In doing so, Tax argues, a unique form of socialist-feminist class consciousness was created, whose remarkable history is chronicled in this work.With a focus on the histories of the Socialist Party and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), Tax shows how working-class socialist women navigated the terrain between the seemingly oppositional demands
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