Radicals of the Worst Sort: Laboring Women in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1860-1912

Radicals of the Worst Sort: Laboring Women in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1860-1912
ISBN-10
025206318X
ISBN-13
9780252063183
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
229
Language
English
Published
1993
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Author
Ardis Cameron

Description

Ardis Cameron focuses on the textile workers' strikes of 1882 and 1912 in this examination of class and gender formation as drawn from the experience and language of the working-class neighborhoods of Lawrence. She shows clearly that the working women who unionized and fought for equality were considered the "worst sort" because they challenged both economic and sexual hierarchies, providing alternative models for turn-of-the-century women.

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