The Other Women"s Movement (ebook)

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Winner of the 2005 - 28th Annual Philip Taft Labor History Award, International Association of Labour History Institutions
Honorable Mention for the 2004 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2004

"Meticulously researched and beautifully written. The kind of history that causes us radically to rethink what we thought we knew about the relationship between feminism and social class. We cannot afford to ignore the lessons of the past she so cogently analyzes for today's activists and scholars."--Mary Margaret Fonow, British Journal Of Industrial Relations

"This [book] . . . shows the results of prodigious research. . . . Cobble believes that labor feminism learned from second-wave feminism and that later the new feminism learned from the old. She outlines steps that must be taken for labor feminism to be revitalized."--Library Journal

"Dorothy Sue Cobble's book is a tour de force of feminist historical research and scholarship."--Sue Ledwith, Industrial Relations Journal

"The book is a tour de force of historical analysis. The Other Women's Movement pursues the very ambitious goal of reconstructing the historical relationship between feminism and working women in the United States between 1930 and 1980. The book brilliantly achieves this goal."--Kathryn Kish Sklar, Binghamton University

"[A] sweeping new history of working-class feminism. . . . Future studies of post-World War II labor activism, politics, and feminism will build on this crucial work."--Annelise Orleck, Reviews in American History

"A rich contribution to the history of American women and American labor from the 1930s to the 1980s."--Choice

"Dorothy Sue Cobble has recovered . . . a feminist legacy that in its embrace of female difference refused to conform to 'men's ways.' She provides a usable past for those of us who wish to revalue women's labors. . . . Cobble's stunning reinterpretation persuasively shows that we've been looking in the wrong place for a mass movement after suffrage and before women's liberation. She names this movement 'labor feminism.'"--Eileen Boris, Women's Review of Books

"In this meticulously documented and richly characterized book . . . [Cobble] provides a detailed and lively account . . . of the aspirations of an often-overlooked movement within what is commonly considered a monolithic American [feminism]."--Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review

"The unheralded advocacy and pivotal role of working-class women in the labor movement in the decades following the Depression are illuminated for the first time in this work. . . . . This book scrutinizes intersections and divergences in the history of the labor movement and American feminism."--Noteworthy Books in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics, Firestone Library, Princeton

"[A] remarkable . . . fascinating new history of the 'other,' forgotten feminism."--Sarah Blustain, The American Prospect0LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ix
PREFACE xi
TEXT ABBREVIATIONS xiii
INTRODUCTION: The Missing Wave 1
CHAPTER ONE: The Other Labor Movement 11
CHAPTER TWO: Social Feminism Remade 50
CHAPTER THREE: Women's Job Rights 69
CHAPTER FOUR: Wage Justice 94
CHAPTER FIVE: The Politics of the "Double Day" 121
CHAPTER SIX: Labor Feminism at High Tide 145
CHAPTER SEVEN: The Torch Passes 180
CHAPTER EIGHT: An Unfinished Agenda 206
EPILOGUE: The Next Wave 223
ABBREVIATIONS FOR NOTES 229
NOTES 231
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 299
PERMISSIONS 301
INDEX 303