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by Annelise Orleck
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Synopses & Reviews "Common Sense and a Little Fire" traces the personal and public lives of four immigrant women activists who left a lasting imprint on American politics. Though they have rarely had more than cameo appearances in previous histories, Rose Schneiderman, Fannia Cohn, Clara Lemlich Shavelson, and Pauline Newman played important roles in the emergence of organized labor, the New Deal welfare state, adult education, and the modern women's movement.<P>Orleck takes her four subjects from turbulent, turn-of-the-century Eastern Europe to the radical ferment of New York's Lower East Side and the gaslit tenements where young workers studied together. Drawing from the women's writings and speeches, she paints a compelling picture of housewives' food and rent protests, of grim conditions in the garment shops, of factory-floor friendships that laid the basis for a mass uprising of young women garment workers, and of the impassioned rallies working women organized for suffrage. From that era of rebellion, Orleck charts the rise of a distinctly working-class feminism that fueled poor women's activism and shaped government labor, tenant, and consumer policies through the early 1950s. Review: Orleck's intelligent work reminds readers of a time when workers fought valiantly . . . to be represented by a union. Choice Review: About the Author Annelise Orleck is associate professor of histoy and women's studies at Dartmouth College. She is author of Soviet Jewish Americans and editor of The Politics of Motherhood: Activist Voices from Left to Right.
Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780807845110
- Subtitle:
- Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965
- Author:
- Orleck, Annelise
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- Location:
- Chapel Hill :
- Subject:
- General
- Subject:
- History
- Subject:
- Labor & Industrial Relations
- Subject:
- Women's Studies - History
- Subject:
- Jewish women
- Subject:
- Women social reformers
- Subject:
- Working class women
- Subject:
- Women in the labor movement
- Subject:
- Women social reformers -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Subject:
- Working class women -- United States -- Political activity.
- Subject:
- Labor & Industrial Relations - General
- Subject:
- United States - 20th Century
- Subject:
- labor history; women; immigrant; American politics; Rose Schneiderman; Fannia Cohn; Clara Lemlich Shavelson; Pauline Newman; feminism
- Subject:
- Women's Studies
- Subject:
- Women social reformers -- United States.
- Subject:
- Women in the labor movement - United States -
- Copyright:
- 1995
- Edition Description:
- Paperback
- Series:
- Gender and American Culture Paperback
- Series Volume:
- 186026
- Publication Date:
- May 1995
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- Illustrations:
- Yes
- Pages:
- 400
- Dimensions:
- 9.28x6.17x1.05 in. 1.39 lbs.
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