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Italian Women in Industry by Louise Christine Odencrantz Pdf
Excerpt from Italian Women in Industry: A Study of Conditions in New York City Fter the outbreak of the European war in August, 1914, immigration to this country gradually decreased until, in comparison. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Italian Women in Industry by Louise C 1884-1969 Odencrantz Pdf
This groundbreaking study examines the lives of Italian women working in industry in New York City during the early 20th century. Drawing on interviews with workers and extensive research, the authors shed light on the challenges faced by these women and the impact of their work on their families and communities. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Italian Women in Industry by Louise C 1884-1969 Odencrantz Pdf
This groundbreaking study examines the lives of Italian women working in industry in New York City during the early 20th century. Drawing on interviews with workers and extensive research, the authors shed light on the challenges faced by these women and the impact of their work on their families and communities. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Italian Women in Industry; a Study of Conditions in New York City by Louise C. (Louise Christine) Odencrantz Pdf
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Italian Women in Industry by Louise C. Odencrantz Pdf
Excerpt from Italian Women in Industry: A Study of Conditions in New York City About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Cohen examines shifting patterns in the family roles, work lives, and schooling of two generations of Italian-American women, paying particular attention to the importance of these women's pragmatic daily choices.
Italians were the largest group of immigrants to the United States at the turn of the twentieth century, and hundreds of thousands led and participated in some of the period's most volatile labor strikes. Jennifer Guglielmo brings to life the Italian working-class women of New York and New Jersey who helped shape the vibrant radical political culture that expanded into the emerging industrial union movement. Tracing two generations of women who worked in the needle and textile trades, she explores the ways immigrant women and their American-born daughters drew on Italian traditions of protest to form new urban female networks of everyday resistance and political activism. She also shows how their commitment to revolutionary and transnational social movements diminished as they became white working-class Americans.
Unions were a force in the assimilation of Italian women to American society. Evidence shows that Italian women engaged in labor struggles through most of the 20th Century. 'Italian-ness' and 'rebel-ness' were not necessarily dichotomous qualities, but often appeared side by side in women unionists. They represented the emotional tug-of-war which existed within the second generation Italo-Americans and were evident in the lives of such activists as Margaret de Maggio, Angela Bambace, Grace de Luise, Tina Catania, and others. These, as well as countless unknown women played an enormous role in keeping the labor movement alive in the garment industry particularly in the 1920's and 30's. Their efforts made future gains possible for both men and women in the industry. Four important questions in American immigration and labor history are answered in this book. First, what was the impact of immigration on Italian women? Second, what were the factors which determined whether or not Italian women joined and remained members of the garment unions at various time periods? Third, how did the union affect Italian immigrant women? Fourth, what contributions did these women, in turn, make to the American labor movement? Immigration was the answer to the economic necessities of the Italian peasants. While immigrant women experienced social and economic problems in their efforts to adapt to their new environment, the longest, and often most wrenching adjustments had to be made in cultural transplantation and amalgamation, therein the crisis of immigration was truly evident. In Southern Italian society, socio-cultural forces and the personalities of the individual members in that societyinteracted with each other. Each made demands of the individual. The behavior of Italian women was, in many ways, an expression of the sanctions which operated within that culture. Pre-industrial or peasant values persisted when the family unit emigrated to an industrial society. Factors which allowed the survival of the family often operated at a great cost for the individual. This was particularly true of Italian women. While the employment of women was crucial in the survival of the family, women's work was often devaluated. This distortion was necessary to curb the individuality and independence of women in the patriarchal culture transplanted to the United States. This same perception created barriers to unionization among Italian women in the garment industry to which they flocked. Values of the dominant American culture entered into the social consciousness of these women, though at a slower rate than for the men. Thus, factors which determined whether or not Italian women joined and remained union members varied according to time periods. In the initial experience with unions, women showed themselves incapable of forming ties of loyalty outside the family. This was particularly true in the 1909 Shirtwaist Strike. Just as familial loyalties had, at first, prevented Italian women from joining in labor activities, the need to preserve and defend the family, eventually led these same women to seek unionization. What would change in the course of time was not the value of the family, but rather women's perception of their role within that family. Italian women were part of a stream of events, and as each struggle bore fruit, they began to change their views until they took the lead in initiating militant trade union activities.
Italian Women in Industry by Louise C. 1884-1969 Odencrantz Pdf
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Author : Donna R. Gabaccia,Franca Iacovetta Publisher : University of Toronto Press Page : 472 pages File Size : 46,5 Mb Release : 2002-01-01 Category : Social Science ISBN : 0802084621
Women, Gender and Transnational Lives by Donna R. Gabaccia,Franca Iacovetta Pdf
In this transnational analysis of women and gender in Italy's world-wide migration, Franca Iacovetta and Donna Gabaccia challenge the stereotype of the Italian immigrant woman as silent and submissive; a woman who stays 'in the shadows.'
Embroidered Stories by Edvige Giunta,Joseph Sciorra Pdf
For Italian immigrants and their descendants, needlework represents a marker of identity, a cultural touchstone as powerful as pasta and Neapolitan music. Out of the artifacts of their memory and imagination, Italian immigrants and their descendants used embroidering, sewing, knitting, and crocheting to help define who they were and who they have become. This book is an interdisciplinary collection of creative work by authors of Italian origin and academic essays. The creative works from thirty-seven contributors include memoir, poetry, and visual arts while the collection as a whole explores a multitude of experiences about and approaches to needlework and immigration from a transnational perspective, spanning the late nineteenth century to the late twentieth century. At the center of the book, over thirty illustrations represent Italian immigrant women’s needlework. The text reveals the many processes by which a simple object, or even the memory of that object, becomes something else through literary, visual, performance, ethnographic, or critical reimagining. While primarily concerned with interpretations of needlework rather than the needlework itself, the editors and contributors to Embroidered Stories remain mindful of its history and its associated cultural values, which Italian immigrants brought with them to the United States, Canada, Australia, and Argentina and passed on to their descendants.
Women and Industry in the Balkans by Chiara Bonfiglioli Pdf
Women's emancipation through productive labour was a key tenet of socialist politics in post-World War II Yugoslavia. Mass industrialisation under Tito led many young women to join traditionally 'feminised' sectors, and as a consequence the textile sector grew rapidly, fast becoming a gendered symbol of industrialisation, consumption and socialist modernity. By the 1980s Yugoslavia was one of the world's leading producers of textiles and garments. The break-up of Yugoslavia in 1991, however, resulted in factory closures, bankruptcy and layoffs, forcing thousands of garment industry workers into precarious and often exploitative private-sector jobs. Drawing on more than 60 oral history interviews with former and current garment workers, as well as workplace periodicals and contemporary press material collected across Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Slovenia, Women and Industry in the Balkans charts the rise and fall of the Yugoslav textile sector, as well as the implications of this post-socialist transition, for the first time. In the process, the book explores broader questions about memories of socialism, lingering feelings of attachment to the socialist welfare system and the complexity of the post-socialist era. This is important reading for all scholars working on the history and politics of Yugoslavia and the Balkans, oral history, memory studies and gender studies.
Italian Women's Writing, 1860-1994 by Sharon Wood Pdf
Women's writing in Italy from Unification to the present day, examining the lives and works of women writers within the context of Italian history, culture and politics. The changing face of Italian social and political life since Unification has greatly affected the position of women in Italy. This work explores the relation between the changing role of women over this period, then struggle for social and political emancipation and equality, and the search by women writers to a personal and authentic literary voice.
Merchants, Midwives, and Laboring Women by Diane C. Vecchio Pdf
Challenging long-held patriarchal assumptions about Italian women's work in the United States Diane C. Vecchio's unique study considers the work experiences of Italian immigrant women and their daughters in the previously unexamined regions of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Endicott, New York, during the turn of the twentieth century. Using Italian and American sources and rich oral histories, this study reveals that women in Italy had economic responsibilities that often included work experiences outside of the home, including jobs as midwives and businesswomen. Demonstrating the regional variation of Italian women's work as well as the skills they transplanted to America balances the image of inexperienced and low-skilled laborers that dominates scholarship on Italian working women. Vecchio's research on Endicott sheds light on the gendered nature of life in a "company town" governed by welfare paternalism, while her research on Milwaukee emphasizes how Italian immigrant women turned to small business enterprise when local opportunities for wage-earning were limited. This comparative method helps to move beyond reductionist theories and conventional portraits of Italian women to explore the diverse factors that prompted them to seek certain kinds of occupations to the exclusion of others.
