Community of Suffering and Struggle: Women, Men, and the Labor Movement in Minneapolis, 1915-1945 (Gender and American Culture)
By Elizabeth Faue.
Description
Elizabeth Faue traces the transformation of the American labor movement from community forms of solidarity to bureaucratic unionism. Arguing that gender is central to understanding this shift, Faue explores women's involvement in labor and political organizations and the role of gender and family ideology in shaping unionism in the twentieth century. Her study of Minneapolis, the site of the important 1934 trucking strike, has broad implications for labor history as a whole.Initially the labor movement rooted itself in community organizations and networks in which women were active,...
ISBN(s)
0807843075, 9780807843079
