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Breadwinners - Working Women and Economic Independence, 1865-1920 (Paperback)
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Breadwinners - Working Women and Economic Independence, 1865-1920 (Paperback)
Series: Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
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This study of feminist labor reform examines how working women
pursued equality by claiming new identities for themselves as
citizens and as breadwinners. Lara Vapnek tells the story of
American labor feminism from the end of the Civil War through the
winning of woman suffrage rights, a period in which working women
in the nation's industrializing cities launched a series of
campaigns to gain economic equality and political power. Focusing
particularly on disjunctions between middle-class and working-class
women's notions of independence, Vapnek highlights the specific
contributions of reformers such as Jennie Collins, Leonora
O'Reilly, and Helen Campbell, and organizations such as the
National Consumers' League, the Women's Educational and Industrial
Union, and the Women's Trade Union League. Locating households as
important sites of class conflict, "Breadwinners" recovers the
class and gender politics behind the marginalization of domestic
workers in debates over labor reform while documenting the ways in
which working-class women raised their voices on their own behalf.
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