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African American women in Detroit and Richmond, 1940-54
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Shockley, Megan Taylor
- Publish Year
- 2004
- Shelfmark
- B5807 - B
- Thesaurus
- zwarte vrouwen, sociale klasse, fabrieksarbeidsters, industrie, mensenrechten, politieke participatie, sociale bewegingen, racisme, tweede wereldoorlog, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw
- Description
- As demands on them intensified, the women working to provide American troops with clothing, medical supplies, and support services became increasingly aware of their key role in the war effort. Middle-class African Americans worked to desegregate voluntary associations such as the Red Cross and the USO, and institute a policy of respectability that would undercut pernicious racial stereotypes. Working-class black women began to use their indispensability in industry to leverage demands for equal employment, welfare and citizenship benefits, fair treatment on factory floors, good working conditions, and other considerations previously denied them.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Faderman, Lillian
- Publish Year
- 2013
- Shelfmark
- VS 1E 2013 - B
- Thesaurus
- migratie, oorlog en vrede, industrie, joodse vrouwen, vakbonden, sociale klasse, 20e eeuw, Verenigde Staten, biografie
- Description
- This is the memoir Lillian Faderman’s mother was never able to write. The daughter delves into her mother’s past to tell the story of a Latvian girl who left her village for America with dreams of a life on the stage and met the realities of her new world: the battles she was forced to fight as a woman, an immigrant worker, and a Jew with family left behind in Hitler’s deadly path. The story begins in 1914: Mary, the girl who will become Lillian Faderman’s mother, just seventeen and swept up with vague ambitions to be a dancer, travels alone to America, where her half-sister in Brooklyn takes her in. She finds a job in the garment industry and a shop friend who teaches her the thrills of dance halls and the cheap amusements open to working-class girls. This dazzling life leaves Mary distracted and her half-sister and brother-in-law scandalized and they kick her out of their home.. Eighteen years later, still barely scraping by as a garment worker and unmarried at thirty-five, Mary falls madly in love with a man who will never marry her, but who will father Lillian Faderman before he disappears from their lives. America is in the midst of the Depression, Hitler is coming to power in Europe, and New York’s garment workers are just beginning to unionize. As National Socialism engulfs Europe, Mary realizes she must find a way to get her family out of Latvia, and she spends frenetic months chasing vague promises and false rumors of hope. Mary faces both single motherhood and the devastating possibility of losing her entire Eastern European family. Lillian Faderman has reconstructed an engrossing and essential chapter in the history of women, of workers, of Jews, and of the Holocaust as immigrants experienced it from American shores.
the industrial revolution and female aspiration
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Cook, Sylvia Jenkins
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- VS 5 2008
- Thesaurus
- sociale klasse, industrie, media, Verenigde Staten, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw
- Description
- Working Women, Literary Ladies explores the simultaneous entry of working-class women in the United States into wage-earning factory labor and into opportunities for mental and literary development. The book examines the exchange between the work and literary spheres for laboring women in the rapidly industrializing America of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As women entered the public sphere as workers, their opportunities for intellectual growth expanded, even as those same opportunities were often tightly circumscribed by the factory owners who were providing them. These developments, both institutional and personal, opened up a range of new possibilities for working-class women that profoundly affected women of all classes and the larger social fabric. Cook examines the extraordinary and diverse literary productions of these working women, ranging from their first New England magazine of belles lettres, The Lowell Offering, to Emma Goldman's periodical, Mother Earth.
women and brotherhood in the electrical industry
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Moccio, Francine A.
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- VS 53 2009
- Thesaurus
- industrie, ambachts-, industrie- en transportberoepen, vrouwen in mannenberoepen, vakbonden, gelijke behandeling, etniciteit, gender, sociale klasse, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw
- Description
- In this book Moccio brings to life forty years of public policy reform and advocacy that have failed to eliminate restricted opportunities for women in highly paid, skilled blue-collar jobs. Breaking barriers into a male-only occupation and trade, women electricians have found career opportunities in nontraditional work. Yet their efforts to achieve gender equality have also collided with the prejudice and fraternal values of brotherhood and factors that have ultimately derailed women's full inclusion. By drawing instructive comparisons of women’s entrance into the electricians’ trade and its union with those of black and other minority men, Moccio’s in-depth case study brings new insights into the ways in which divisions at work along the lines of race, gender, and economic background enhance and/or inhibit inclusion.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Hymowitz, Carol
- Creator
- Weissman, Michaele
- Publish Year
- 1978
- Shelfmark
- VS 1A 1978 - A
voices of gay, lesbian, and transgender steelworkers
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Balay, Anne
- Publish Year
- 2014
- Shelfmark
- VS 53 2014 - B
- Thesaurus
- arbeidsters, industrie, LHBT, sociale klasse, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, 21e eeuw
- Description
- In this book Balay draws on oral history interviews with forty gay, lesbian, and transgender steelworkers, mostly living in northwestern Indiana, to give voice to this previously silent and invisible population. She presents powerful stories of the intersections of work, class, gender, and sexual identity in the dangerous industrial setting of the steel mill.
Volume II from 1870
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Sklar, Kathryn Kish > (ed.)
- Creator
- Dublin, Thomas > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Silverberg, Helene
- Publish Year
- 2002
- Shelfmark
- B3910 - B
- Thesaurus
- geschiedenis, liefdadigheid, etniciteit, moederschap, religie, seksualiteit, sociale klasse, anticonceptie, lesbische vrouwen, leefvormen, immigratie, industrie, vrouwenbewegingen, vrouwenorganisaties, latina's, gelijke beloning, Verenigde Staten, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, bundel
- Description
- Twenty essays provide readers with a unifying theme, and an understanding of history and continuing changes in gender relations. The chosen works discuss female institution building and American feminism, working-class women and sexuality, the professionalization of birth control, the sexual division of labor in the auto industry during World War II, the arrival of women in New York's Chinatown, the ERA, fair pay for working women, and much more.
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