Eva McDonald Valesh was one of the Progressive Era's foremost labor
publicists. Challenging the narrow confines placed on women, Valesh
became a successful investigative journalist, organizer, and public
speaker for labor reform.
Valesh was a compatriot of the labor leaders of her day and the
"right-hand man" of Samuel Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Labor. Events she covered during her colorful,
unconventional reporting career included the Populist revolt, the
Cuban crisis of the 1890s, and the 1910 Shirtwaistmakers' uprising.
She was described as bright, even "comet-like, " by her admirers,
but her enemies saw her as "a pest" who took "all the benefit that
her sex controls when in argument with a man."
Elizabeth Faue examines the pivotal events that transformed this
outspoken daughter of a working-class Scotch-Irish family into a
national political figure, interweaving the study of one woman's
fascinating life with insightful analysis of the changing character
of American labor reform during the period from 1880 to 1920. In
her journey through the worlds of labor, journalism, and politics,
Faue lays bare the underside of social reform and reveals how
front-line workers in labor's political culture -- reporters,
investigators, and lecturers -- provoked and informed American
society by writing about social wrongs. Compelling, insightful, and
at times humorous, Writing the Wrongs is a window on the
Progressive Era, on social history and the new journalism, and on
women's lives and the meanings of class and gender.
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