Women Workers on Strike: Narratives of Southern Women Unionists
Author:   Roxanne Newton (Mitchell Community College, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9780415653305


Pages:   200
Publication Date:   10 September 2012
Format:   Paperback
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Women Workers on Strike: Narratives of Southern Women Unionists


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Author:   Roxanne Newton (Mitchell Community College, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.370kg
ISBN:  

9780415653305


ISBN 10:   0415653304
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   10 September 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

"1. The Fabric of Hope and Resistance 2. A Feminist Working-Class Narrative Study 3. ""Good as a Man"": Identity [Re]formation in Male-Dominated Jobs 4. ""I Had to Constantly Fight"": Solidarity and Social Activism 5. ""I Just Couldn’t Say No"": Self-Abnegation and Sacrifice 6. ""I Do the Politics"": Union Feminism and Social Justice 7. Global Solidarity: The Warp and Weft of Change"

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This book is an excellent cross-reference of gender and class, focusing on the conflict between traditional working-class women, with theories of caring and selfeffacement and loss, and unionism. -- Labor Studies Journal


"""This book is an excellent cross-reference of gender and class, focusing on the conflict between traditional working-class women, with “theories of caring” and “selfeffacement and loss,” and unionism."" -- Labor Studies Journal"


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Roxanne Newton

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