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

• Другие авторы: Jensen, Joan M. (Редактор), Davidson, Sue (Редактор)
• Формат: Электронный ресурс Глава книги
• Язык: английский
• Опубликовано: Temple University Press 1984
• Предметы: 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...