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1 online resource (xxii, 304 pages : illustrations

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Series

Women in the political economy

Women in the political economy.

JSTOR open access.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword / Michelle Haberland -- Introduction / Sue Davidson -- Part I. Needlework as art, craft, and livelihood before 1900 -- [Part I Introduction] / Joan M. Jensen -- "If I didn't have my sewing machine ... ": women and sewing machine technology / Ava Barm and Susan E. Klepp -- "A paradise of fashion": A.T. Stewart's Department Store, 1862-1875 / Deborah S. Gardner -- Part II. The great uprisings: 1900-1920 -- [Part II Introduction] ; The great uprising in Rochester / Joan M. Jensen -- The uprising in Chicago: the Men's Garment Workers Strike, 1910-1911 / N. Sue Weiler -- The great uprising in Cleveland: when sisterhood failed / Lois Scharf -- The uprising of the 20,000: the making of labor legend / Ann Schofield -- Part III. Inside and outside the unions: 1920-1980 -- [Part III Introduction] / Joan M. Jensen -- Dorothy Jacobs Bellanca: women clothing workers and the runaway shops / Nina Asher -- Women at Farah: at unfinished story / Laurie Coyle, Gail Hersbatter and Emily Honig -- A stitch in our time: New York's Hispanic garment workers in the 1980s / Elizabeth Weiner and Hardy Green.

Local Note

JSTOR

Subject

Women clothing workers -- United States -- History.

Strikes and lockouts -- Clothing trade -- United States.

Labor unions -- United States -- Clothing workers.

Travailleuses du vêtement -- États-Unis -- Histoire.

Strikes and lockouts -- Clothing trade. (OCoLC)fst01135068

Women clothing workers. (OCoLC)fst01177428

United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155

Genre/Form

History. (OCoLC)fst01411628

Added Author

Jensen, Joan M.

Davidson, Sue, 1925-2016.

Other Form:

Print version: Needle, a bobbin, a strike : women needleworkers in America. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Temple University Press, 1984 xxii, 306 pages 9781439917893

ISBN

9781439917909 (electronic bk.)

1439917906 (electronic bk.)

0877223408

9781439917893