Part 1. Life and labor -- Life in the Irish American community: an overview -- Radicals and reformers: the origins of women's labor activism and alliances -- Part 2. Irish nationalism -- Charitable Colleens or voracious viragoes? The influence of the Ladies' Land League and its legacy -- Propaganda, protest, purchasing, and picketing: Irish American women's nationalist strategies in the twentieth century -- The suffrage movement -- The politics of identity: Irish Americans and woman suffrage in the nineteenth century -- Twentieth-century connections: suffrage tactics, trade unionists, and the lessons of Tammany Hall -- Conclusion
Summary
"This project offers a national study of the different agendas and strategies pursued by Irish American women in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, focusing on their roles in diaspora nationalism, the labor movement, and the suffrage movement."--Provided by publisher
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource, title from digital title page (viewed on October 8, 2020)