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A Power Among Themis a lively account of the life of Bessie Hillman, a woman who has previously not received enough attention given the important role she played in improving rights for women, immigrants, African Americans, and the working class in the United States. --Labour/Le Travail Valuable in its focus on a figure underappreciated even in other literature on the ACW... A real contribution to the scholarship on the struggle of labor women to merge class and gender identities in finding meaningful work and building productive lives. --American Jewish History A carefully researched and engaging biography that makes vivid the many changes affecting union women in the twentieth century. --Enterprise and Society The book is written with such craft that it reads almost like entertaining historical fiction... A great resource for labor history and women's studies collections. Highly recommended. --Choice

<p> A Power Among Them is a lively account of the life of Bessie Hillman, a woman who has previously not received enough attention given the important role she played in improving rights for women, immigrants, African Americans, and the working class in the United States. -- Labour/Le Travail

Valuable in its focus on a figure underappreciated even in other literature on the ACW. . . . A real contribution to the scholarship on the struggle of labor women to merge class and gender identities in finding meaningful work and building productive lives. -- American Jewish History

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Karen Pastorello chairs the Women and Gender Studies Program and is a professor of history at Tompkins Cortland Community College. She is the author of The Progressives: Activism and Reform in American Society, 1893-1917.

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