Focusing on the socialist housewives, settlement workers, and left-wing feminists who were the main allies of working women between the 1880s and World War I, "The Rising of the Women" explores the successes and failures of the " united fronts" within which middle- and working-class American women worked together to improve social and economic conditions for female laborers. Through detailed studies of the Woman's Trade Union League, the Illinois Women's Alliance, the New York shirtwaist makers strike of 1909-10, and the 1912 textile workers strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts, Meredith Tax uncovers the circumstances that helped and hindered cross-class and cross-gender cooperation on behalf of women of the working class. In a new introduction to this first Illinois paperback edition, Tax assesses the progress of women's solidarity since the book's original publication."
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"In this searching examination of the links between feminism, trade unionism, and socialism, Tax asks why the connection between the working-class struggle and the movement for women's liberation broke so often, and why, in the end, no lasting relationship developed... [An] intelligent study of the failure of understanding and fragmentation of interests." -- Library Journal "The Rising of the Women is indispensable for a comprehensive understanding of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century feminism." -- New Directions for Women "Rich in historical detail, powerful in its analysis and interpretation, and wise in its recommendations for contemporary mobilization." -- Steven M. Buechler, Contemporary Sociology
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To a turn-of-the-century Marxist like Theresa Malkiel, it was a truism that the modern struggle for women's liberation was born of the same economic developments that produced the class struggle: as women began to work outside the home, they learned to resent their condition of domestic servitude and to demand the same rights as the men of their class. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
shirtwaist makers, trade union league, shirtwaist strike, socialist women, suffrage work, organizing women Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Women's Trade Union League, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Leonora O'Reilly, Mary Kenney, Elizabeth Morgan, Lizzie Swank, United States, Clara Lemlich, Illinois Woman's Alliance, Hull House, Knights of Labor, Margaret Sanger, Federal Labor Union, Rose Schneiderman, National Woman's Party, Corinne Brown, Margaret Dreier Robins, New England, Working Women's Union, Florence Kelley, Jane Addams, Samuel Gompers, World War, Alzina Stevens New!
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To a turn-of-the-century Marxist like Theresa Malkiel, it was a truism that the modern struggle for women's liberation was born of the same economic developments that produced the class struggle: as women began to work outside the home, they learned to resent their condition of domestic servitude and to demand the same rights as the men of their class. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
shirtwaist makers, trade union league, shirtwaist strike, socialist women, suffrage work, organizing women Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Women's Trade Union League, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Leonora O'Reilly, Mary Kenney, Elizabeth Morgan, Lizzie Swank, United States, Clara Lemlich, Illinois Woman's Alliance, Hull House, Knights of Labor, Margaret Sanger, Federal Labor Union, Rose Schneiderman, National Woman's Party, Corinne Brown, Margaret Dreier Robins, New England, Working Women's Union, Florence Kelley, Jane Addams, Samuel Gompers, World War, Alzina Stevens New!
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