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Daughters of the Shtetl: Life and Labor in the Immigrant Generation

Book information

Publisher
Cornell University Press
Year
1991
ISBN
9780801497599, 0801497590
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
21 MB (22502284 bytes)
Pages
328\332
Library
Fulcrum
Time added
2023-06-13 06:38:15

Description

In this fascinating portrait of Jewish immigrant wage earners, Susan A. Glenn weaves together several strands of social history to show the emergence of an ethnic version of what early twentieth-century Americans called the "New Womanhood." She maintains that during an era when Americans perceived women as temporary workers interested ultimately in marriage and motherhood, these young Jewish women turned the garment industry upside down with a wave of militant strikes and shop-floor activism and helped build the two major clothing workers' unions.

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