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The thirteen critical and well-documented chapters of Women, Work
and Activism examine women's labor struggle from late
nineteenth-century Portuguese mutual societies to Yugoslav peasant
women's work in the 1930s, and from the Catalan labor movement
under the Franco dictatorship to workplace democracy in the United
States. The authors portray women's labor activism in a wide
variety of contexts. This includes spontaneous resistance to
masculinist trade unionism, the feminist engagement of women
workers, the activism of communist wives of workers, and female
long-distance migration, among others. The chapters address the
gendered involvement of working people in multiple and often
precarious and unstable labor relations and in unpaid labor, as
well as the role of the state and other institutions in shaping the
history of women's labor. The book is an innovative contribution to
both the new labor history and feminist history. It fully
integrates the conceptual advances made by gender historians in the
study of labor activism, driving home critiques of Eurocentric
historiographies of labor to Europe while simultaneously
contributing to an inclusive history of women's labor-related
activism wherever to be found. Examining women's activism in
male-dominated movements and institutions, and in women's networks
and organizations, the authors make a case for a new direction in
gender history.
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