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The Rising of the Women - Feminist Solidarity and Class Conflict, 1880-1917 (Paperback)
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In this landmark study of American labor history, Meredith Tax
charts the actions of women in working-class, feminist, and
socialist movements between 1880 and 1917 in the USA. Caught
between the hostility of male trade unionists, the chauvinism of
male socialist organizers, and the assumptions of middle-class
feminists, women workers forged their own demands for economic and
political justice in the industrializing landscape of North
America. In doing so, Tax argues, a unique form of
socialist-feminist class consciousness was created, whose
remarkable history is chronicled in this work. With a focus on the
histories of the Socialist Party and the Industrial Workers of the
World (IWW), Tax shows how working-class socialist women navigated
the terrain between the seemingly oppositional demands for suffrage
and labour rights. The Rising of the Women also contains detailed
case studies of two germinal moments in American labour history:
the uprising of shirtwaist workers in New York City in 1909 - 1910,
the real beginning of the International Ladies' Garment Worker
Union; and the 1912 IWW strike of immigrant textile workers in
Lawrence, Mass., making it an essential text for students of
American labor history as well as readers interested in
twentieth-century feminism. First published in 1980, the book is
reissued by Verso as part of the highly successful Feminist
Classics series, where it takes its place alongside texts by Sheila
Rowbotham, Kathi Weeks, Stella Dadzie, Lynne Segal and more. The
result of years of archival research, Tax blends original source
material from the participants of the movements with her own sharp
analysis into a rich narrative of women workers' struggle. The
Rising of the Women is a classic of feminist labor history whose
time has come to find the wide audience it deserves.
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