Focusing on the textile workers' strikes of 1882 and 1912, Ardis Cameron examines class and gender formation as drawn from the experiences of working-class women in the textile manufacturing town of Lawrence, Massachusetts. She explores the role of women in worker militancy from the perspective of the neighborhood and argues for the importance of female networks and associational life in working-class culture and politics. Radicals of the Worst Sort is a study of domination and power, constructed not only at the level of economics and politics but also at the level of social perception and conceptualization. It thus provides the basis for a new set of generalizations about the lives of nineteenth-century factory women in their jobs and communities. This exciting history illuminates ongoing debates about the dynamic role of gender and challenges shifting perceptions and definitions of what a "woman" should be. Cameron shows that unionized women who fought for equality were "radicals of the worst sort" (as one mill officer tagged them) because they rebelled against traditional economic and sexual hierarchies, providing alternative models for turn-of-the-century women. Radicals of the Worst Sort includes oral histories of former strikers in the famous Bread and Roses strike of 1912. Four full-color maps show Cameron's meticulous documentation of the nationalities of every Lawrence family living in the multicultural neighborhoods featured in her book.
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"Reclaims the territory of labor history from those who seem at best resistant to admitting the connections between gender and class, community and workplace." -- H-Net Book Reviews.
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In the dark, cold dawn of January 1860, just under a thousand mill operatives left their rooms and cottages in the "Plains" for the short walk down the canal and toward the Pemberton Mill. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
powers that prey, traditional female obligations, activist file, corporate reserve, female strikers, general strike committee, laboring women, ring spinners, mule spinners, mill wages, female militants, loom fixers, mill management, female operatives, female militancy, female efforts, operative class, female activists, striking women, interview with author, worker militancy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New England, New York, United States, Sara Axelrod, American Woolen Company, Courtesy of Immigrant City Archives, Gilded Age, Pacific Mill, Central Labor Union, Common Street, Fall River, Joe Ettor, Everett Mill, French Canadians, Mary Rice Livermore, Anna Marino, Civil War, Consiglia Teutonica, Duncan Wood, Dutch Plain, Mary Halley, Pemberton Mill, William Wood, Angelo Rocco, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn New!
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In the dark, cold dawn of January 1860, just under a thousand mill operatives left their rooms and cottages in the "Plains" for the short walk down the canal and toward the Pemberton Mill. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
powers that prey, traditional female obligations, activist file, corporate reserve, female strikers, general strike committee, laboring women, ring spinners, mule spinners, mill wages, female militants, loom fixers, mill management, female operatives, female militancy, female efforts, operative class, female activists, striking women, interview with author, worker militancy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New England, New York, United States, Sara Axelrod, American Woolen Company, Courtesy of Immigrant City Archives, Gilded Age, Pacific Mill, Central Labor Union, Common Street, Fall River, Joe Ettor, Everett Mill, French Canadians, Mary Rice Livermore, Anna Marino, Civil War, Consiglia Teutonica, Duncan Wood, Dutch Plain, Mary Halley, Pemberton Mill, William Wood, Angelo Rocco, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn New!
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- Lawrence, Massachusetts (Images of America) by Eartha Dengler on 4 pages
- We Shall Be All: A History of the Industrial Workers of the World (abridged ed.) (Working Class in American History) by Melvyn Dubofsky on 4 pages
- The Interpretation Of Cultures (Basic Books Classics) by Clifford Geertz on 4 pages
- Family Connections by Val Brown on 4 pages
- City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860 by Christine Stansell on 4 pages
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- The Necessity of Organization: Mary Kenney OOSullivan and Trade Unionism for Women, 1892-1912 (Garland Studies in the History of American Labor) by Kathleen B. Nutter on 5 pages
- Radical History Review: Volume 65 (v. 65) by Rhr Collective on 4 pages
- Women and the City: Gender, Space, and Power in Boston, 1870-1940 by Sarah Deutsch in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Sweatshop USA: The American Sweatshop in Historical and Global Perspective by Daniel E. Bender on page 35, and page 200
- The Belles of New England: The Women of the Textile Mills and the Families Whose Wealth They Wove by William Moran in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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