Women Work And Protest

Author : Ruth Milkman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136247682

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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 : Ruth Milkman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1073247449

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Women, Work and Protest by Ruth Milkman Pdf

Author : Ruth Milkman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Sex discrimination against women
ISBN : 0415534097

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Women, Work, and Protest by Ruth Milkman Pdf

Author : S. Laurel Weldon
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822972341

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Protest, Policy, and the Problem of Violence Against Women by S. Laurel Weldon Pdf

Violence against women is one of the most insidious social ills facing the world today. Yet governmental response is inconsistent, ranging from dismissal to aggressive implementation of policies and programs to combat the problem. In her comparative study of thirty-six democratic governments, Laurel Weldon examines the root causes and consequences of the differences in public policy from Northern Europe to Latin America. She reveals that factors that often influence the development of social policies do not determine policies on violence against women. Neither economic level, religion, region, nor the number of women in government determine governmental responsiveness to this problem. Weldon demonstrates, for example, that Nordic governments take no more action to combat violence against women than Latin American governments, even though the Swedish welfare state is often considered a leader in social policy, particularly with regard to women's issues. Instead, the presence of independently organized, active women's movements plays a greater role in placing violence against women on the public agenda. The breadth and scope of governmental response is greatly enhanced by the presence of an office dedicated to promoting women's status. Weldon closes with practical lessons and insights to improve government action on violence against women and other important issues of social justice and democracy.

Author : Nancy F. Cott
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783110969443

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Industrial Wage Work by Nancy F. Cott Pdf

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Author : Mary H. Blewett
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : New England
ISBN : 025206142X

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Men, Women, and Work by Mary H. Blewett Pdf

"Blewett challenges historians to incorporate gender analysis and a tradition of working women's protest into the history of the American labor movement." -- Georgia Historical Quarterly " Blewett's] detailed reconstruction of feminist perspectives in shoeworker protest and the divisions created by the competing loyalties to sisterhood and to working-class families is among the best available. . . . With works like this, it should be impossible to write about the American working class without including women." -- Historical Journal of Massachusetts "A highly stimulating and rewarding book." -- Journal of Interdisciplinary History

Author : Guida West,Rhoda Lois Blumberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0195061187

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Women and Social Protest by Guida West,Rhoda Lois Blumberg Pdf

Bringing together eighteen thought-provoking articles--most of them written especially for this volume--Women and Social Protest addresses a long-neglected area in social history and politics, showing how in recent years feminist social scientists have begun to reexamine women's involvement in social protest, the innovative forms this protest takes, and the impact of activism on women's lives. This timely and comprehensive anthology provides a much-needed forum for discussion of these topics, and shows how the sociological and political literature has long ignored, masked, or distorted the political activities of women, thus creating the stereotype of the "apolitical woman."Drawing on the work of sociologists, political scientists, historians, and experts in women's studies, Women and Social Protest explores four types of social protest--economic; racial, ethnic, and nationalistic; social nurturing and humanistic; and women's rights--considering a wealth of data from different eras and case studies from around the world. An introductory chapter provides a theoretical framework for the essays and helpful introductions to each section identify and elaborate general themes. In addition, a comprehensive bibliography offers the most extensive, up-to-date list of readings available. One of the first books to examine this important topic in detail, Women and Social Protest is a valuable contribution to the expanding field of social political theory.

Author : Mary Triece
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429977619

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Protest And Popular Culture by Mary Triece Pdf

Protest and Popular Culture is at once a historical monograph and a critique of postmodernist approaches to the study of mass media, consumerism, and popular political movements. In it, Triece compares the self-representations of several late nineteenth and twentieth-century women's protest movements with representations of women offered by contemporaneous mass media outlets. She shows that from the late nineteenth century until the present day, U.S. women's protest movements sought to convince women that they are first and foremost laborer/producers, while the U.S. media has just as consistently sought to convince women that they are primarily consumers. Triece contends that these approaches to portraying women have been and continue to be constructed in opposition to one another. The leaders of women's protest movements, she argues, have long sought to convince women not to spend time and money on reshaping their selves through consumer purchases, but instead to focus attention on empowering themselves politically by asserting control over their own labor power. The mass media, meanwhile, has always treated such movements as potential threats to the financial well-being of the consumer sector (that is, of advertisers), and so has consistently trivialized them, while seeking simultaneously to convince women that they should devote attention and resources to buying things, not to struggling to overcome class and gender discrimination. Many cultural-studies scholars have argued that in recent years, rising prosperity has made consumerism into the primary site of both individual expression and ?resistance? to the dominant socio-economic order, with self-definition through personal purchases supplanting the role formerly played by struggle for an end to inequities of all kinds. These scholars contend that as such, mass media no longer function to naturalize, and thus reinforce such inequities, and consumerism no longer serves to perpetuate them. Triece argues that her examples show that this argument is faulty, and that scholars should continue to take a traditional materialist view in all studies of mass media, consumerism, and popular protest.

Author : Susan Ferguson
Publisher : Between the Lines
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781771134408

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Women and Work by Susan Ferguson Pdf

With #metoo dominating headlines and an unprecedented number of women running for office, the fight for women’s equality has perhaps never been higher on the political agenda. Around the world, women are fighting against unfair working conditions, restrictive abortion Laws, and the frayed social safety net. The same holds true within the business world—but there’s a twist: even as some women argue that pushing for more female CEOs would help the struggle for equality, other activists argue that CEOs themselves are part of the problem, regardless of gender. In Feminist Thinking about Work, Susan Ferguson explores the history of feminist discourse, examining the ways in which feminists have conceptualized women’s work and placed labor, and its reproduction, at the heart of their program for emancipation. Engaging with feminist critiques of work, Ferguson argues that women’s emancipation depends upon a reorganization and radical reimagining of all labor, and advocates for an inclusive politics that reconceptualizes women’s work and work in general.

Author : Sarah Colvin,Katharina Karcher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351203692

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Women, Global Protest Movements, and Political Agency by Sarah Colvin,Katharina Karcher Pdf

This volume analyses and historicises the memory of 1968 (understood as a marker of an emerging will for social change around the turn of that decade, rather than as a particular calendar year), focusing on cultural memory of the powerful signifier '68' and women’s experience of revolutionary agency. After an opening interrogation of the historical and contemporary significance of "1968" – why does it still matter? how and why is it remembered in the contexts of gender and geopolitics? and what implications does it have for broader feminist understandings of women and revolutionary agency? – the contributors explore women’s historical involvement in "1968" in different parts of the world and the different ways in which women’s experience as victims and perpetrators of violence are remembered and understood. This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of protest and violence in the fields of history, politics and international relations, sociology, cultural studies, and women’s studies.

Author : Raka Ray
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1452903611

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Fields of Protest by Raka Ray Pdf

Author : Artisan
Publisher : Artisan
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781579658342

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Why We March by Artisan Pdf

National Bestseller On January 21, 2017, millions of people gathered worldwide for the Women’s March, one of the largest demonstrations in political history. Together they raised their voices in hope, protest, and solidarity. This inspiring collection features 500 of the most eloquent, provocative, uplifting, clever, and creative signs from across the United States and around the world. Each is a powerful reminder of why we march. As with the recent battle cry of “Nevertheless, she persisted,” these messages continue to reverberate daily and fortify a movement that will not be silenced. All royalties from the sale of this book will be donated to Planned Parenthood.

Author : Neil L. Shumsky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135603892

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The Working Class and Its Culture by Neil L. Shumsky Pdf

Volume 5 "THE WORKING CLASS AND ITS CULTURE’ of the American Cities; series. This collection brings together more than 200 scholarly articles pertaining to the history and development of urban life in the United States during the past two centuries. Volume 5 contains articles that are closely related but which concentrate specifically on the changing nature of work in American cities during the past two centuries. While they obviously concern the development of the industrial and post-industrial economies, they also recognize that economic transformations are intimately related to cultural change and that economic and cultural change are inseparable and must be considered together. At the same time, taken as a group, the articles reveal differences in experience between black and white Americans, men and women, and native and foreign-born Americans, necessitating that each of these groups be considered separately. The selections also investigate and illuminate questions about the relationships among these different groups and the kinds of actions they have taken to achieve their goals—political protests, boycotts, strikes, and so on.

Author : Malcolm I. Thomis,Jennifer Grimmett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000155594

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Women in Protest 1800-1850 by Malcolm I. Thomis,Jennifer Grimmett Pdf

There is still much uncertainty about the role of nineteenth-century British women in social and political protest. As politics was a man’s world virtually all official accounts and statistics of popular protest deal only with the men involved. It is well known that women participated in food riots and mobilised support for Chartism, and as the dramatic changes in the economy during this period greatly increased the demand for women’s labour, this stimulated their widespread involvement in political and social agitation, particularly the parliamentary reform movement of 1819. First published in 1982, this book provides a descriptive account of the part played by women – mainly working class women – in a variety of social and political activities that can broadly be categorised as protest. It establishes the basic outlines and offers an interpretation of the course of events.

Author : Torry D. Dickinson,Robert K. Schaeffer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0742508951

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Fast Forward by Torry D. Dickinson,Robert K. Schaeffer Pdf

This innovative, global feminist analysis of work and politics examines the diverse problems and related protests of women and men who labor to make ends meet in a rapidly-changing world. Using vivid examples from around the world, it reveals how "globalization" is reshaping social institutions and lives. Fast Forward explores how businesses and states reshaped and redistributed work around the world during the last 30 years of "globalization," often with adverse consequences. Within this fast-moving context, laboring people today engage in work outside of formal employment, try to obtain survival resources, mount a diverse array of often women-centered protests against firms and states, and try--on their own terms--to reinvent work and democratic political practices. Portraying the human face of global change, Fast Forward shows how overlapping social movements wrestle with economic and political marginalization, and initiate highly diverse, but related attempts to change the way the world works.