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The Other Women´s Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America
Dorothy Sue Cobble
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Description for The Other Women´s Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America
Paperback. Retrieves the forgotten feminism of the working women, illuminating the ideas that inspired them and the reforms they secured from employers and the state. This book contains stories of labor reformers who wanted equality and "special benefits," and who argued that gender differences must be accommodated. Series: Politics and Society in Modern America. Num Pages: 336 pages, 26 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 235 x 24. Weight in Grams: 548.
American feminism has always been about more than the struggle for individual rights and equal treatment with men. There's also a vital and continuing tradition of women's reform that sought social as well as individual rights and argued for the dismantling of the masculine standard. In this much anticipated book, Dorothy Sue Cobble retrieves the forgotten feminism of the previous generations of working women, illuminating the ideas that inspired them and the reforms they secured from employers and the state. This socially and ethnically diverse movement for change emerged first from union halls and factory floors and spread to the ... Read more
American feminism has always been about more than the struggle for individual rights and equal treatment with men. There's also a vital and continuing tradition of women's reform that sought social as well as individual rights and argued for the dismantling of the masculine standard. In this much anticipated book, Dorothy Sue Cobble retrieves the forgotten feminism of the previous generations of working women, illuminating the ideas that inspired them and the reforms they secured from employers and the state. This socially and ethnically diverse movement for change emerged first from union halls and factory floors and spread to the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Series
Politics and Society in Modern America
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691123684
SKU
V9780691123684
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About Dorothy Sue Cobble
Dorothy Sue Cobble is Professor of Labor Studies, History, and Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University where she directs the Institute for Research on Women. She is the author of "Dishing It Out: Waitresses and Their Unions in the Twentieth Century" and "Women and Unions: Forging a Partnership".
Reviews for The Other Women´s Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America
Winner of the 2005 - 28th Annual Philip Taft Labor History Award, International Association of Labour History Institutions Honorable Mention for the 2004 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2004 "This [book] ... shows the results of prodigious research... Cobble believes that labor ... Read more