Women, Men, and the Labor Movement in Minneapolis, 1915-1945
Author: Elizabeth Faue
ISBN: 0807843075
Elizabeth Faue traces the transformation of the American labor movement from community forms of solidarity to bureaucratic unionism. Arguing that gender is central to understanding this shift, Faue explores women's involvement in labor and political organizations and the role of gender and family ideology in shaping unionism in the twentieth century. Her study of Minneapolis, the site of the important 1934 trucking strike, has broad implications for labor history as a whole.Initially the labor movement rooted itself in community organizations and networks in which women were active, both as members and as leaders. This community orientation reclaimed family, relief, and education as political ground for a labor movement seeking to re-establish itself after the losses of the 1920s. But as the depression deepened, women?perceived as threats to men seeking work?lost their places in union leadership, in working-class culture, and on labor's political agenda. When unions exchanged a communi
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publish Date: 1991
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Historical, Business & Economics / Economic History, Business & Economics / Labor, Business & Economics / Women in Business, History / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI), Political Science / Labor & Industrial Relations, Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural, Social Science / Gender Studies
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