Women, work, and protest : a century of US women's labor history / edited by Ruth Milkman.

Contributor Milkman, Ruth, 1954-

Imprint:London ; New York : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987, c1985.

Descriptionxiv, 333 p. ; 22 cm.

Note:Cover title: Women, work & protest.

Note:"Published in the USA by Routledge and Kegan Paul Inc. in association with Methuen Inc. ... New York, NY"--T.p. verso.

Note:Bread before roses: American workingmen, labor unions and the family wage / Martha May. - Labor organizing and female institution-building: the Chicago Women's Trade Union League, 1904-24 / Collette A. Hyman. - Bread and roses revisited: women's culture and working-class activism in the Lawrence strike of 1912 / Ardis Cameron. - The women of the Colorado Fuel and Iron strike, 1913-14 / Priscilla Long. - Another look at the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union: women, industry structure and collective action / Roger Waldinger. - Problems of coalition-builing: women and trade unions in the 1920s / Alice Kessler-Harris. - Survival strategies among African-American women workers: a continuing process / Rosalyn Terborg-Penn. - 'I know which side I'm on': Southern women in the labor movement in the twentieth century / Mary Frederickson. - 'Where I was a person': the ladies auxiliary in the 1934 Minneapolis Teamsters' strikes / Marjorie Penn Lasky. - 'We're no Kitty Foyles': organizing workers for the Congress of industrial organizations, 1937-50 / Sharon Hartman Strom. - Organizing the United Automobile Workers: women workers at the Ternstedt General Motors parts plant / Ruth Meyerowitz. - Women and the United Automobile Worker's Union in the 1950s / Nancy Gabin. - Unionized women in state and local government / Deborah E. Bell. - Women workers, feminism and the labor movement since the 1960s / Ruth Milkman.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographies and index.

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