Sealskin and shoddy : working women in American labor press fiction, 1870-1920
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Sealskin and shoddy : working women in American labor press fiction, 1870-1920
（Contributions in women's studies, no. 96）
Greenwood Press, 1988
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Articles originally published 1888-1920
Bibliography: p. [251]-252
Includes index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
Introduction Our Sealskin and Shoddy: A Sensational Story of Labor's Wrongs by W.H. Little from The Journal of United Labor of the Knights of Labor - July 19, 1988 The Show by Gertrude Barnum from The Ladies's Garment Worker - February, 1911 The Pig-Headed Girl by Gertrude Barnum from The Ladies' Garment Worker - April 1912 In the Jacket Shop by Gertrude Barnum from The Ladies' Garment Worker - April, 1910 At the Shirt Waist Factory by Gertrude Barnum from The Ladies' Garment Worker - May, 1910 This Style: Six Twenty-Nine by Gertrude Barnum from The Ladies' Garment Worker - May, 1913 The Living Skeleton and the Stout Reformer by Gertrude Barnum from The Ladies' Garment Worker - July, 1980 The Idealists by Gertrude Barnum Equal Rights by Abraham Reisin from The Ladies' Garment Worker - November, 1917 Recognized by Wiener from The Ladies' Garment Worker - February, 1918 Regina's Disappointment by Bertha Levy from The Ladies Garment Worker - September, 1913 Mr. Skinner Climbs Down: The Story of a Girl's Strike and its Success from The Ladies' Garment Worker - February, 1913 Reporting Her Own Trial by Max Danish from The Ladies' Garment Worker - November, 1913 Not on Speaking Terms by Max Danish from The Ladies' Garment Worker - April, 1914 Angelina's Wisdom by Max Danish from The Ladies' Garment Worker - August, 1914 Tangled in the Shadows by Sonia Ureles from The Ladies' Garment Worker - September, 1913 Pilgrim's Progress in a Cigar Factory by "A Pilgrim" from Life and Labor of the Women's Trade Union League - June, 1920 Sarah Jane Appleton's Strike by Lucy Foster Madison from The Shoe Workers Journal - November, 1905 A Golf Skirt by Theodora Bliss from American Federationist - December 1907 Her Birthday Gift by Lizzie Homes from American Federationist - March, 1913 Judge Newcomb's Retribution by Lizzie Homes from American Federationist - February, 1902 Mary Shaugnessy by Felix Benquiat from WHY? of the Industrial Workers of the World - June, 1913 Working Girls and Pet Dogs by Josephine Conger from The Butcher Workman - May, 1917 Suggestions for Further Reading Index
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