Author : Joshua Benjamin Freeman
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Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,13 MB
Release : 2003
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Labor History After the Gender Turn
Joshua Benjamin Freeman
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Women, Work, and Protest
Ruth Milkman
Author : Ruth Milkman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 41,46 MB
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1136247688
As paid work becomes increasingly central in women’s lives, the history of their labor struggles assumes more and more importance. This volume represents the best of the new feminist scholarship in twentieth-century U.S. women’s labor history. Fourteen original essays illuminate the complex relationship between gender, consciousness and working-class activism, and deepen historical understanding of the contradictory legacy of trade unionism for women workers. The contributors take up a wide range of specific subjects, and write from diverse theoretical perspectives. Some of the essays are case studies of women’s participation in individual unions, organizing efforts, or strikes; others examine broader themes in women’s labor history, focusing on a specific time period; and still others explore the situation of particular categories of women workers over a longer time span. This collection extends the scope of current research and interpretation in women’s labor history, both conceptually and in terms of periodization – emphasis is placed on the post-World War I period where the literature is sparse. This book will be valuable for scholars, students and general readers alike.
Gendering Labor History
Alice Kessler-Harris
Author : Alice Kessler-Harris
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 32,73 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0252073932
The role of gender in the history of the working class world
Work Engendered
Ava Baron
Author : Ava Baron
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,52 MB
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1501711245
In tobacco fields, auto and radio factories, cigarmakers' tenements, textile mills, print shops, insurance companies, restaurants, and bars, notions of masculinity and femininity have helped shape the development of work and the working class. The fourteen original essays brought together here shed new light on the importance of gender for economic and class analysis and for the study of men as well as women workers. After an introduction by Ava Baron addressing current problems in conceptualizing gender and work, chapters by leading historians consider how gender has colored relations of power and hierarchy—between employers and workers, men and boys, whites and blacks, native-born Americans and immigrants, as well as between men and women—in North America from the 1830s to the 1970s. Individual essays explore a spectrum of topics including union bureaucratization, protective legislation, and consumer organizing. They examine how workers' concerns about gender identity influenced their job choices, the ways in which they thought about and performed their work, and the strategies they adopted toward employers and other workers. Taken together, the essays illuminate the plasticity of gender as men and women contest its meaning and its implications for class relations. Anyone interested in labor history, women's history, and the sociology of work or gender will want to read this pathbreaking book.
On Gender, Labor, and Inequality
Ruth Milkman
Author : Ruth Milkman
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 17,78 MB
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0252098587
Ruth Milkman's groundbreaking research in women's labor history has contributed important perspectives on work and unionism in the United States. On Gender, Labor, and Inequality presents four decades of Milkman's essential writings, tracing the parallel evolutions of her ideas and the field she helped define. Milkman's introduction frames a career-spanning scholarly project: her interrogation of historical and contemporary intersections of class and gender inequalities in the workplace, and the efforts to challenge those inequalities. Early chapters focus on her pioneering work on women's labor during the Great Depression and the World War II years. In the book's second half, Milkman turns to the past fifty years, a period that saw a dramatic decline in gender inequality even as growing class imbalances created greater-than-ever class disparity among women. She concludes with a previously unpublished essay comparing the impact of the Great Depression and the Great Recession on women workers. A first-of-its-kind collection, On Gender, Labor, and Inequality is an indispensable text by one of the world's top scholars of gender, equality, and work.
United Apart
Ileen A. DeVault
Author : Ileen A. DeVault
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 21,40 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780801427688
Strike -- The Knights of Labor -- The American Federation of Labor -- Ethnicity, race, and strikes -- Strikes in the industrial periphery -- Family ties -- Industrial unions in the AFL? -- Conclusion.
Women, Work, and Activism
Eloisa Betti
Author : Eloisa Betti
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 45,51 MB
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9789633864418
The thirteen critical and well-documented chapters of Women, Work and Activism document women's labor struggle from late nineteenth-century Portuguese mutual societies to Yugoslav peasant women's work in the 1930s, and from the Catalan labor movement under the Franco dictatorship to workplace democracy in the United States. The authors portray female labor activism in a wide variety of contexts including spontaneous resistance to traditional trade unionism, feminist workers, communist wives of workers, and female long-distance migrants. The chapters address the involvement of working people in multiple and often precarious and unstable labor relations and in unpaid labor, as well as the role of the state and other institutions in shaping the history of women's labor. The book is an innovative contribution to both labor history and feminist history. It redefines the new labor history by focusing on the political-social history of labor and by fully integrating the conceptual advances made by gender historians in the study of labor activism. Both class and gender shaped women's labor activism, and the authors make a case for a new direction in gender history that takes this activism into account.
Workers Across the Americas
Leon Fink
Author : Leon Fink
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 30,30 MB
Release : 2011-04-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199731632
The first major volume to place U.S.-centered labor history in a transnational focus, Workers Across the Americas collects the newest scholarship of Canadianist, Caribbeanist, and Latin American specialists as well as U.S. historians. These essays highlight both the supra- and sub-national aspect of selected topics without neglecting nation-states themselves as historical forces. Indeed, the transnational focus opens new avenues for understanding changes in the concepts, policies, and practice of states, their interactions with each other and their populations, and the ways in which the popular classes resist, react, and advance their interests.What does this transnational turn encompass? And what are its likely perils as well as promise as a framework for research and analysis? To address these questions John French, Julie Greene, Neville Kirk, Aviva Chomsky, Dirk Hoerder, and Vic Satzewich lead off the volume with critical commentaries on the project of transnational labor history. Their responses offer a tour of explanations, tensions, and cautions in the evolution of a new arena of research and writing. Thereafter, Workers Across the Americas groups fifteen research essays around themes of labor and empire, indigenous peoples and labor systems, international feminism and reproductive labor, labor recruitment and immigration control, transnational labor politics, and labor internationalism. Topics range from military labor in the British Empire to coffee workers on the Guatemalan/Mexican border to the role of the International Labor Organization in attempting to set common labor standards. Leading scholars introduce each section and recommend further reading.
What is Work?
Raffaella Sarti
Author : Raffaella Sarti
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 45,70 MB
Release : 2018-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1785339125
Every society throughout history has defined what counts as work and what doesn’t. And more often than not, those lines of demarcation are inextricable from considerations of gender. What Is Work? offers a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding labor within the highly gendered realm of household economies. Drawing from scholarship on gender history, economic sociology, family history, civil law, and feminist economics, these essays explore the changing and often contested boundaries between what was and is considered work in different Euro-American contexts over several centuries, with an eye to the ambiguities and biases that have shaped mainstream conceptions of work across all social sectors.
Gender History in Practice
Kathleen Canning
Author : Kathleen Canning
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 37,77 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801489716
The eight essays collected in this volume examine the practice of gender history and its impact on our understanding of European history. Each essay takes up a major methodological or theoretical issue in feminist history and illustrates the necessity of critiquing and redefining the concepts of body, citizenship, class, and experience through historical case studies. Kathleen Canning opens the book with a new overview of the state of the art in European gender history. She considers how gender history has revised the master narratives in some fields within modern European history (such as the French Revolution) but has had a lesser impact in others (Weimar and Nazi Germany).Gender History in Practice includes two essays now regarded as classics?"Feminist History after the 'Linguistic Turn'" and "The Body as Method"--as well as new chapters on experience, citizenship, and subjectivity. Other essays in the book draw on Canning's work at the intersection of labor history, the history of the welfare state, and the history of the body, showing how the gendered "social body" was shaped in Imperial Germany. The book concludes with a pair of essays on the concepts of class and citizenship in German history, offering critical perspectives on feminist understandings of citizenship. Featuring an extensive thematic bibliography of influential works in gender history and theory that will prove invaluable to students and scholars, Gender History in Practice offers new insights into the history of Germany and Central Europe as well as a timely assessment of gender history's accomplishments and challenges.