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Author Orleck, Annelise, author.

Title Common sense & a little fire : women and working-class politics in the United States, 1900-1965 / Annelise Orleck
Edition Second edition / with a new preface by the author
Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
©2017

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Description 1 online resource
Series Gender & American culture
Gender & American culture.
Contents Preface to the second edition -- Introduction -- part 1. The rise of a working-class women's movement, 1882-1909 -- Prologue. From the Russian Pale to the Lower East Side : the cultural roots of four Jewish women's radicalism -- 1. Coming of age : the shock of the shops and the dawning of political consciousness, 1900-1909 -- part 2. Working women in rebellion : the emergence of industrial feminism, 1909-1920 -- 2. Audacity : the uprising of women garment workers, 1909-1915 -- 3. Common sense : New York City working women and the struggle for woman suffrage -- part 3. The activists in their prime : the mainstreaming of industrial feminism, 1920-1945 -- 4. Knocking at the White House door : Rose Schneiderman, Pauline Newman, and the campaign for labor legislation, 1910-1945 -- 5. Emotion strained through a thinking mind : Fannia Cohn, the Ilgwu, and the struggle for workers' education, 1915-1945. -- 6. Spark plugs in every neighborhood : Clara Lemlich Shavelson and the emergence of a militant working-class housewives' movement, 1913-1945 -- part4 The activists in old age : the twilight of a movement, 1945-1986 -- 7. Witnessing the end of an era : the postwar years and the decline of industrial feminism -- Epilogue. Reflections on women and activism
Summary Over twenty years after its initial publication, Annelise Orleck's Common Sense and a Little Fire continues to resonate with its harrowing story of activism, labor, and women's history. Orleck traces the personal and public lives of four immigrant women activists who left a lasting imprint on American politics. Though they have rarely made more than cameo appearances in previous histories, Rose Schneiderman, Fannia Cohn, Clara Lemlich Shavelson, and Pauline Newman played important roles in the emergence of organized labor, the New Deal welfare state, adult education, and the modern women's movement. Orleck takes her four subjects from turbulent, turn-of-the-century Eastern Europe to the radical ferment of New York's Lower East Side and the gaslit tenements where young workers studied together. Orleck paints a compelling picture of housewives' food and rent protests, of grim conditions in the garment shops, of factory-floor friendships that laid the basis for a mass uprising of young women garment workers, and of the impassioned rallies working women organized for suffrage. Featuring a new preface by the author, this new edition reasserts itself as a pivotal text in twentieth-century labor history
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed 25 January 2022)
Subject Women in the labor movement -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Working class women -- Political activity -- United States
Jewish women -- Political activity -- United States
Women social reformers -- United States -- History -- 20th century
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
Jewish women -- Political activity
Women in the labor movement
Women social reformers
Working class women -- Political activity
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781469635927
1469635925
9781469635934
1469635933
Other Titles Common sense and a little fire