A Needle, a Bobbin, a Strike Women Needleworkers in America

• Other Authors: Jensen, Joan M. (Editor), Davidson, Sue (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Temple University Press 1984
• Subjects: Social & cultural history; Industrial arbitration & negotiation; Gender studies: women; History; Sociology; Political Science
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Almost exclusively considered "women's work," the sewing trades have a history of toil, exploitation, and unfinished protest. These essays trace the shift in needleworkers' environments-the home, sweatshop, department store, and factory-from the nineteenth into the twentieth cent...