Mary Kenny O'Sullivan, a wage-earner understood first hand the difficulties faced by the millions of semi-skilled and unskilled women who toiled in America's factories at the end of the 19th-Century. She sought to improve labour conditions through trade unionism. Appointed the first woman organizer for the American Federation of Labour in 1892 she went on to be a co-founder of the Womens' Trade Union League, formed in 1903 this was a cross-class alliance of women workers and their middle and upper class allies. This book charts Kenny O'Sullivan's life from her early days as a labor organizer in Boston during the 1890s to the "Bread and Roses" strike in Lawrence in 1912. The possibilities and limits of trade unionism for women, given the class and gender constraints of the period are the focus of this book.
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organized women workers, industrial feminism, women bookbinders, social reform community, organized labor community, union label leagues, industrial woman, woman organizer, fraternal delegate, central labor union, male trade unionists, women textile workers, protective labor legislation, carpet weavers, microfilm edition, organizing secretary, shoe workers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Kenney O'Sullivan, New York, Fall River, Mary Kenney, Boston Globe, Denison House, Glendower Evans, Samuel Gompers, University of Illinois Press, Hull House, United States, Library of Congress, American Federationist, Frank Foster, Florence Kelley, Margaret Dreier Robins, National Women's Trade Union League, New England, Jack O'Sullivan, Knights of Labor, Jane Addams, Radcliffe College, Helena Dudley, Schlesinger Library, Labor News New!
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organized women workers, industrial feminism, women bookbinders, social reform community, organized labor community, union label leagues, industrial woman, woman organizer, fraternal delegate, central labor union, male trade unionists, women textile workers, protective labor legislation, carpet weavers, microfilm edition, organizing secretary, shoe workers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Kenney O'Sullivan, New York, Fall River, Mary Kenney, Boston Globe, Denison House, Glendower Evans, Samuel Gompers, University of Illinois Press, Hull House, United States, Library of Congress, American Federationist, Frank Foster, Florence Kelley, Margaret Dreier Robins, National Women's Trade Union League, New England, Jack O'Sullivan, Knights of Labor, Jane Addams, Radcliffe College, Helena Dudley, Schlesinger Library, Labor News New!
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