Rights Not Roses

Author : Dennis Deslippe
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0252068343

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Rights, Not Roses by Dennis Deslippe Pdf

Although the most visible banners of feminism were carried by educated, white-collar, professional women, in fact, working-class women were a powerful force in the campaign for gender equality. "Rights, Not Roses" explores how unionized wage-earning women led the struggle to place women's employment rights on the national agenda, decisively influencing both the contemporary labor movement and second-wave feminism. Drawing on union records, oral histories, and legislative hearings and debates, Dennis A. Deslippe unravels a complex history of how labor leaders accommodated and resisted working women's demands for change. Through case studies of unions representing packinghouse and electrical workers, Deslippe explains why gender equality emerged as an issue in the 1960s and how the activities of wage-earning women in and outside of their unions shaped the content of the debate. He also traces the faultlines between working-class women, who sought gender equality within the parameters of unionist principles such as seniority, and middle-class women, who sought an equal rights amendment that would guarantee an abstract equality for all women. A thoughtful and thorough study of working-class feminism, "Rights, Not Roses" raises important questions about the meaning of equality for working women, the connections of women to their unions, the gendered nature of equal rights, and more.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 822 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Constitutional amendments
ISBN : UCAL:$B643809

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The "equal Rights" Amendment by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 946 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045466708

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The "Equal Rights" Amendment by United States. Congress. Senate. Judiciary Pdf

Author : Karen Pastorello
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Clothing workers
ISBN : 9780252032301

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A Power Among Them by Karen Pastorello Pdf

The extraordinary life of labor activist, immigrant, and feminist, Bessie Abramowitz Hillman

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Administrative procedure
ISBN : UCAL:B3603184

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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Special Subcommittee on Education
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Sex discrimination against women
ISBN : LOC:00053585863

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Discrimination Against Women by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Special Subcommittee on Education Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1500 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Educational law and legislation
ISBN : UCAL:B3605590

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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Education and Labor by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor Pdf

Author : Susan Zimet,Todd Hasak-Lowy
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-16
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780698410596

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Roses and Radicals by Susan Zimet,Todd Hasak-Lowy Pdf

The United States of America is almost 250 years old, but American women won the right to vote less than a hundred years ago. And when the controversial nineteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution-the one granting suffrage to women-was finally ratified in 1920, it passed by a mere one-vote margin. The amendment only succeeded because a courageous group of women had been relentlessly demanding the right to vote for more than seventy years. The leaders of the suffrage movement are heroes who were fearless in the face of ridicule, arrest, imprisonment, and even torture. Many of them devoted themselves to the cause knowing they wouldn't live to cast a ballot. The story of women's suffrage is epic, frustrating, and as complex as the women who fought for it. Illustrated with portraits, period cartoons, and other images, Roses and Radicals celebrates this captivating yet overlooked piece of American history and the women who made it happen.

Author : Rebecca Solnit
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780593083376

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Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit Pdf

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography “An exhilarating romp through Orwell’s life and times and also through the life and times of roses.” —Margaret Atwood “A captivating account of Orwell as gardener, lover, parent, and endlessly curious thinker.” —Claire Messud, Harper's “Nobody who reads it will ever think of Nineteen Eighty-Four in quite the same way.” —Vogue A lush exploration of politics, roses, and pleasure, and a fresh take on George Orwell as an avid gardener whose political writing was grounded by his passion for the natural world “In the spring of 1936, a writer planted roses.” So be-gins Rebecca Solnit’s new book, a reflection on George Orwell’s passionate gardening and the way that his involvement with plants, particularly flowers, illuminates his other commitments as a writer and antifascist, and on the intertwined politics of nature and power. Sparked by her unexpected encounter with the roses he reportedly planted in 1936, Solnit’s account of this overlooked aspect of Orwell’s life journeys through his writing and his actions—from going deep into the coal mines of England, fighting in the Spanish Civil War, critiquing Stalin when much of the international left still supported him (and then critiquing that left) to his analysis of the relationship between lies and authoritarianism. Through Solnit’s celebrated ability to draw unexpected connections, readers are drawn onward from Orwell‘s own work as a writer and gardener to encounter photographer Tina Modotti’s roses and her politics, agriculture and illusion in the USSR of his time with forcing lemons to grow in impossibly cold conditions, Orwell’s slave-owning ancestors in Jamaica, Jamaica Kincaid’s examination of colonialism and imperialism in the flower garden, and the brutal rose industry in Colombia that supplies the American market. The book draws to a close with a rereading of Nineteen Eighty-Four that completes Solnit’s portrait of a more hopeful Orwell, as well as offering a meditation on pleasure, beauty, and joy as acts of resistance.

Author : Dorothy Sue Cobble
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691123684

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The Other Women's Movement by Dorothy Sue Cobble Pdf

American feminism has always been about more than the struggle for individual rights and equal treatment under the law. In this book, [the author] retrieves an alternative tradition of women's reform that sought answers to questions increasingly pressing today: how to balance work and family and how to address growing economic inequalities. [This book] trace[s] the history of American social justice feminism from the 1930s into the present and to link that continuous tradition with the leadership of labor women.-Back cover.

Author : Marcia Walker-McWilliams
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252098963

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Reverend Addie Wyatt by Marcia Walker-McWilliams Pdf

Labor leader, civil rights activist, outspoken feminist, African American clergywoman--Reverend Addie Wyatt stood at the confluence of many rivers of change in twentieth century America. The first female president of a local chapter of the United Packinghouse Workers of America, Wyatt worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and Eleanor Roosevelt and appeared as one of Time magazine's Women of the Year in 1975. Marcia Walker-McWilliams tells the incredible story of Addie Wyatt and her times. What began for Wyatt as a journey to overcome poverty became a lifetime commitment to social justice and the collective struggle against economic, racial, and gender inequalities. Walker-McWilliams illuminates how Wyatt's own experiences with hardship and many forms of discrimination drove her work as an activist and leader. A parallel journey led her to develop an abiding spiritual faith, one that denied defeatism by refusing to accept such circumstances as immutable social forces.

Author : Barbara Burrell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004-10-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781851095971

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Women and Political Participation by Barbara Burrell Pdf

An illuminating analysis of the long and ongoing struggle of women in America to gain political equality and bring about change in public policy. Women and Political Participation examines the involvement of women in American politics, concentrating mainly on their participation since the birth of the second women's movement in the late 1960s. From the creation of grassroots and national organizations to voting and running for office, this thought-provoking volume explores the diverse ways in which women have affected change and achieved greater representation in political leadership. Detailed discussions of key documents like the Declaration of Sentiments and the Equal Rights Amendment; political action committees such as EMILY's List, which supports pro-choice Democratic female candidates; Margaret Sanger, Betty Friedan, and other activists; and groups like the League of Women Voters reveal the complexities of women's efforts to gain equality and identify the barriers that remain today.

Author : Judy Rebick
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005-02-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780143181743

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Ten Thousand Roses by Judy Rebick Pdf

Ten Thousand Roses is a rich tapestry of stories told by over a hundred feminists from across Canada who organized, discussed, protested and struggled for change. Legalized abortion, resistance to male violence, pay equity and employment equity, legal equality through the Charter, pornography, anti-racism, action against poverty, rights for Aboriginal women and child care: these are the issues that rallied Canadian women to activism from the 1960s through the 1990s, the second wave of feminism. Judy Rebick, feminist activist, weaves together an insightful and stirring oral history full of four decades of struggle, defeat and triumph. The book also offers honest and insightful discussions of the differences that simultaneously divided and strengthened the women's movement in its efforts to remake a male-dominated culture. These stories define the Canadian women's movement as one of the most successful on the planet and open a treasure chest of knowledge for anyone wanting to make a better world.

Author : Karin Hofmeester,Marcel van der Linden
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110424584

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Handbook Global History of Work by Karin Hofmeester,Marcel van der Linden Pdf

Coffee from East Africa, wine from California, chocolate from the Ivory Coast - all those every day products are based on labour, often produced under appalling conditions, but always involving the combination of various work processes we are often not aware of. What is the day-to-day reality for workers in various parts of the world, and how was it in the past? How do they work today, and how did they work in the past? These and many other questions comprise the field of the global history of work – a young discipline that is introduced with this handbook. In 8 thematic chapters, this book discusses these aspects of work in a global and long term perspective, paying attention to several kinds of work. Convict labour, slave and wage labour, labour migration, and workers of the textile industry, but also workers' organisation, strikes, and motivations for work are part of this first handbook of global labour history, written by the most renowned scholars of the profession.

Author : Stephanie Gilmore
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Second-wave feminism
ISBN : 9780252075391

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Feminist Coalitions by Stephanie Gilmore Pdf

A fresh new look at the productive partnerships forged among second-wave feminists