Women And The United Auto Workers In The 1940s And 1950s

Author : Sol Dollinger,Genora Johnson Dollinger
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781583670187

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Not Automatic by Sol Dollinger,Genora Johnson Dollinger Pdf

"Sol Dollinger's remembrance of UAW's early days are juicy and provocative. His recall of those goofy internecine political battles within the union is tragic-comic. Yet they, united, even though hollering at each other, made GM, Ford, et al,recognize the union. The sequence involving Genora Johnson Dollinger, the heroine of the 1937 sit-down strike, is deeply moving and inspiring." --Studs Terkel "Should be read by every labor person who takes the principles of trade union history seriously. . . . Brings the history of the UAW up for a new survey of the events to include the men and women who would otherwise be unsung heroes or written out of history totally." --David Yettaw President, UAW Buick Local 599, 1987-1996 This story of the birth and infancy of the United Auto Workers, told by two participants, shows how the gains workers made were not easy or inevitable-not automatic-but required strategic and tactical sophistication as well as concerted action. Sol Dollinger recounts how workers, especially activists on the political left, created an auto union and struggled with one another over what shape the union should take. In an oral history conducted by Susan Rosenthal, Genora Johnson Dollinger tells the gripping tale of her role in various struggles, both political and personal.

Author : Nancy Felice Gabin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0801424356

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Feminism in the Labor Movement by Nancy Felice Gabin Pdf

Gabin documents the struggles of United Auto Workers (UAW) women to achieve greater opportunity in the union, on the job, and ultimately in American society. Although the women never overcame segregated work and union hierarchies, they made considerable inroads from the 1940s forward. Contrasting the ideology of the union with the reality of their place in the auto industry, women pressed for recognition through the formation of a Women's Bureau in the UAW. This book addresses important issues in women's and labor history, and explores the complex and contingent character of the mediation process between feminism and unionism within the UAW. ISBN 0-8014-2435-6: $31.25.

Author : Ava Baron
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0801495431

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Work Engendered by Ava Baron Pdf

In tobacco fields, auto and radio factories, cigarmakers' tenements, textile mills, print shops, insurance companies, restaurants, and bars, notions of masculinity and femininity have helped shape the development of work and the working class. The fourteen original essays brought together here shed new light on the importance of gender for economic and class analysis and for the study of men as well as women workers. After an introduction by Ava Baron addressing current problems in conceptualizing gender and work, chapters by leading historians consider how gender has colored relations of power and hierarchy--between employers and workers, men and boys, whites and blacks, native-born Americans and immigrants, as well as between men and women--in North America from the 1830s to the 1970s. Individual essays explore a spectrum of topics including union bureaucratization, protective legislation, and consumer organizing. They examine how workers' concerns about gender identity influenced their job choices, the ways in which they thought about and performed their work, and the strategies they adopted toward employers and other workers. Taken together, the essays illuminate the plasticity of gender as men and women contest its meaning and its implications for class relations. Anyone interested in labor history, women's history, and the sociology of work or gender will want to read this pathbreaking book.

Author : Annelise Orleck
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000606706

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Rethinking American Women's Activism by Annelise Orleck Pdf

Rethinking American Women's Activism traces intersecting streams of feminist activism from the nineteenth century to the present. This enthralling narrative brings to life an array of women activists from the abolition, suffrage, labor, consumer, civil rights, welfare rights, farm workers’, and low-wage workers’ movements, and from campus fights against sexual violence, #MeToo, the Red for Ed teacher’s strikes, and Black Lives Matter. Multi-cultural, multi-racial and cross-class in its framing, the text enables readers to understand the impact of women's activism. It highlights how feminism has flourished through much of the past century within social movements that have too often been treated as completely separate.Weaving the personal with the political, Annelise Orleck vividly evokes the events and people who participated in our era's most far-reaching social revolutions. This new edition has been updated to include recent scholarship and developments in women’s activism from 2011 into the 2020s. This book is a perfect introduction to the subject for anyone interested in women’s history and social movements.

Author : Joanne Jay Meyerowitz
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1566391717

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Not June Cleaver by Joanne Jay Meyerowitz Pdf

In the popular stereotype of post-World War II America, women abandoned their wartime jobs and contentedly retreated to the home. This work unveils the diversity of postwar women, showing how far women departed from this one-dimensional image.

Author : Constance Backhouse,David H. Flaherty
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780773509108

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Challenging Times by Constance Backhouse,David H. Flaherty Pdf

Challenging Times offers a provocative and detailed overview of feminist movements in Canada and the United States. Through a series of essays that offer innovative interpretations and careful, original scholarship, Constance Backhouse, David Flaherty, and the contributing authors compare and contrast the emergence and advancement of feminism in the two countries, taking care to explore both francophone and anglo-phone communities. By allowing the reader to draw comparisons between women's movements in Canada and the United States, Challenging Times shows that certain political and theoretical issues transcend international borders, ebbing and flowing between the two countries symbiotically. Topics discussed include the origins of "second-stage feminism," the strength of the women's movement within academic structures, and the challenges posed by racial, ethnic, and class diversity; violence against women; the promise and limits of legal reform; reproductive technology; and economic discrimination. Readers who are interested in the recent history of the North American women's movement will find answers to many of their questions about the victories, defeats, and fundamental challenges facing modern feminism. Those who have been active in the current wave of feminism, either as central participants or serious critics, will find Challenging Times equally fascinating because it endeavours to provide answers to pressing questions about the nature of feminism, the inter-relationships and tensions between different sectors of the movement, and the prospects for future growth. Many of the contributors to this volume have lived through and personally shaped the unfolding of the rich history of North American feminism. In addition to Backhouse and Flaherty, the contributors are Catharine A. MacKinnon, Greta Hofmann Nemiroff, Monique Bégin, Mariana Valverde, Naomi Black, Marjorie Griffin Cohen, Micheline de Sève, Micheline Dumont, Margrit Eichler, Sara M. Evans, Marianne A. Ferber, Lorraine Greaves, Marjorie Heins, M. Patricia Fernández Kelly, Patricia A. Monture-Okanee, Arun Mukherjee, Jean F. O'Barr, Christine Overall, Glenda Simms, and Jill Vickers.

Author : Ruth Milkman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136247699

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Women, Work, and Protest by Ruth Milkman Pdf

As paid work becomes increasingly central in women’s lives, the history of their labor struggles assumes more and more importance. This volume represents the best of the new feminist scholarship in twentieth-century U.S. women’s labor history. Fourteen original essays illuminate the complex relationship between gender, consciousness and working-class activism, and deepen historical understanding of the contradictory legacy of trade unionism for women workers. The contributors take up a wide range of specific subjects, and write from diverse theoretical perspectives. Some of the essays are case studies of women’s participation in individual unions, organizing efforts, or strikes; others examine broader themes in women’s labor history, focusing on a specific time period; and still others explore the situation of particular categories of women workers over a longer time span. This collection extends the scope of current research and interpretation in women’s labor history, both conceptually and in terms of periodization – emphasis is placed on the post-World War I period where the literature is sparse. This book will be valuable for scholars, students and general readers alike.

Author : Louis Kushnick,James Jennings
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780814742396

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A New Introduction to Poverty by Louis Kushnick,James Jennings Pdf

Since the end of the Second World War, poverty in the United States has been a persistent focus of social anxiety, public debate, and federal policy. This volume argues convincingly that we will not be able to reduce or eliminate poverty until we take the political factors that contribute to its continuation into account. Ideal for course use, A New Introduction to Poverty opens with a historical overview of the major intellectual and political debates surrounding poverty in the United States. Several factors have received inadequate attention: the impact of poverty on women; the synergy of racism and poverty; race and gender stratification of the workplace; and, crucially, the ways in which the powerful use their resources to maintain the economic status quo. Contributors include Mimi Abramovitz, Peter Alcock, Bonnie Thornton Dill, Raymond Franklin, Herman George Jr., Michael B. Katz, Marlene Kim, Rebecca Morales, Sandra Patton, Valerie Polakow, Jackie Pope, Jill Quadagno, David C. Ranney, Barbara Ransby, Bette Woody, and Maxine Baca Zinn.

Author : Mimi Abramovitz
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781583670088

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Under Attack, Fighting Back by Mimi Abramovitz Pdf

Abramovitz argues that welfare reform has penalized single motherhood; exposed poor women to the risks of hunger, hopelessness, and male violence: swept them into low paid jobs, and left many former recipients unable to make ends meet.".

Author : Carol Groneman,Mary Beth Norton
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0801494524

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"To Toil the Livelong Day" by Carol Groneman,Mary Beth Norton Pdf

Papers pres. at the 6th Berkshire Conference on Women's History 1984.

Author : Elizabeth Faue
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136175510

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Rethinking the American Labor Movement by Elizabeth Faue Pdf

Rethinking the American Labor Movement tells the story of the various groups and incidents that make up what we think of as the "labor movement." While the efforts of the American labor force towards greater wealth parity have been rife with contention, the struggle has embraced a broad vision of a more equitable distribution of the nation’s wealth and a desire for workers to have greater control over their own lives. In this succinct and authoritative volume, Elizabeth Faue reconsiders the varied strains of the labor movement, situating them within the context of rapidly transforming twentieth-century American society to show how these efforts have formed a political and social movement that has shaped the trajectory of American life. Rethinking the American Labor Movement is indispensable reading for scholars and students interested in American labor in the twentieth century and in the interplay between labor, wealth, and power.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822037819422

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Rebuilding Economic Security by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Pdf

Author : Joan Sangster
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802096524

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Transforming Labour by Joan Sangster Pdf

`This is a beautifully conceived and revealing book. Joan Sangster lucidly explores and explains an astonishing array of complex material to reveal how women in the post-war period became full-fledged members of the labour force. Transforming labour offers such a rich variety of ancedotal evidence that it will benefit students of women's work from all over the world.' Alice Kessler-Harris, author of in Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century America

Author : Kate Weigand
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0801871115

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Red Feminism by Kate Weigand Pdf

Drawing on substantial new research, Red Feminism traces the development of a distinctive Communist strain of American feminism from its troubled beginnings in the 1930s, through its rapid growth in the Congress of American Women during the early years of the Cold War, to its culmination in Communist Party circles of the late 1940s and early 1950s. The author argues persuasively that, despite the devastating effects of anti-Communism and Stalinism on the progressive Left of the 1950s, Communist feminists such as Susan B. Anthony II, Betty Millard, and Eleanor Flexner managed to sustain many important elements of their work into the 1960s, when a new generation took up their cause and built an effective movement for women's liberation. Red Feminism provides a more complex view of the history of the modern women's movement, showing how key Communist activists came to understand gender, sexism, and race as central components of culture, economics, and politics in American society.

Author : Jerald Podair,Darren Dochuk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317485667

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The Routledge History of Twentieth-Century America by Jerald Podair,Darren Dochuk Pdf

The Routledge History of the Twentieth-Century United States is a comprehensive introduction to the most important trends and developments in the study of modern United States history. Driven by interdisciplinary scholarship, the thirty-four original chapters underscore the vast range of identities, perspectives and tensions that contributed to the growth and contested meanings of the United States in the twentieth century. The chronological and topical breadth of the collection highlights critical political and economic developments of the century while also drawing attention to relatively recent areas of research, including borderlands, technology and disability studies. Dynamic and flexible in its possible applications, The Routledge History of the Twentieth-Century United States offers an exciting new resource for the study of modern American history.