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On the Picket Line: Strategies of Working-Class Women during the Depression - Softcover

Triece, Mary

 
9780252073915: On the Picket Line: Strategies of Working-Class Women during the Depression
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0252073916 ISBN 13: 9780252073915
Verlag: University of Illinois Press, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

Bonnie Ritter Book Award, National Communication Association's Feminist and Women Studies Division, 2008.

On the Picket Line uncovers the voices of working-class women, particularly those active in the Communist Party, U.S.A., in order to examine how these individuals confronted the tensions between their roles as workers, wives, mothers, and consumers. Combining critical analysis, Marxist and feminist theory, and labor history, Mary E. Triece analyzes the protest tactics employed by working class women to challenge dominant ideologies surrounding domesticity.

She details the rhetorical strategies used by women to argue for their rights as workers in the paid labor force and as caregivers in the home. Their overtly coercive tactics included numerous sit-ins, strikes, and boycotts that won tangible gains for working poor and unemployed women. The book also gives voice to influential figures in the 1930s labor movement (many of whom were members of the Communist Party, U.S.A.), such as Ella Reeve Bloor, Margaret Cowl, Anna Damon, Ann Burlak, and Grace Hutchins. Triece ultimately argues that these confrontational protest tactics of the 1930s remain relevant in today's fights for more humane workplaces and better living conditions.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Mary E. Triece is an associate professor in the School of Communication at the University of Akron. She is the author of Protest and Popular Culture: Women in the U.S. Labor Movement, 1894-1917.



Mary E. Triece is an associate professor in the School of Communication at the University of Akron. She is the author of Protest and Popular Culture: Women in the U.S. Labor Movement, 1894-1917.

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Verlag
University of Illinois Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0252073916
ISBN 13 
9780252073915
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
179
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
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