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Silk Stockings and Socialism - Philadelphia's Radical Hosiery Workers from the Jazz Age to the New Deal (Hardcover)
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Silk Stockings and Socialism - Philadelphia's Radical Hosiery Workers from the Jazz Age to the New Deal (Hardcover)
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The 1920s Jazz Age is remembered for flappers and speakeasies, not
for the success of a declining labor movement. A more complex story
was unfolding among the young women and men in the hosiery mills of
Kensington, the working-class heart of Philadelphia. Their product
was silk stockings, the iconic fashion item of the flapper culture
then sweeping America and the world. Although the young people who
flooded into this booming industry were avid participants in Jazz
Age culture, they also embraced a surprising, rights-based labor
movement, headed by the socialist-led American Federation of
Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers (AFFFHW). In this first history of
this remarkable union, Sharon McConnell-Sidorick reveals how
activists ingeniously fused youth culture and radical politics to
build a subculture that included dances and parties as well as
picket lines and sit-down strikes, while forging a vision for
social change. In documenting AFFFHW members and the Kensington
community, McConnell-Sidorick shows how labor federations like the
Congress of Industrial Organizations and government programs like
the New Deal did not spring from the heads of union leaders or
policy experts but were instead nurtured by grassroots social
movements across America.
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