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Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture, and Labor Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Nan Enstad
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Paperback. Enstad explores the complex relationship between consumer culture and political activism for late nineteenth- and twentieth-century working women. While consumerism did not make women into radicals, it helped shape their culture and their identities as both workers and political actors. Series: Popular Cultures, Everyday Lives. Num Pages: 320 pages, 18 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB; JFSJ1; JHBL; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 363.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, labor leaders in women's unions routinely chastised their members for their ceaseless pursuit of fashion, avid reading of dime novels, and "affected" ways, including aristocratic airs and accents. Indeed, working women in America were eagerly participating in the burgeoning consumer culture available to them. While the leading activists, organizers, and radicals feared that consumerist tendencies made working women seem frivolous and dissuaded them from political action, these women, in fact, went on strike in very large numbers during the period, proving themselves to be politically active, astute, and effective. In Ladies of ... Read more
At the beginning of the twentieth century, labor leaders in women's unions routinely chastised their members for their ceaseless pursuit of fashion, avid reading of dime novels, and "affected" ways, including aristocratic airs and accents. Indeed, working women in America were eagerly participating in the burgeoning consumer culture available to them. While the leading activists, organizers, and radicals feared that consumerist tendencies made working women seem frivolous and dissuaded them from political action, these women, in fact, went on strike in very large numbers during the period, proving themselves to be politically active, astute, and effective. In Ladies of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Series
Popular Cultures, Everyday Lives
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231111034
SKU
V9780231111034
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About Nan Enstad
Nan Enstad is assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Reviews for Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture, and Labor Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Enstad's imaginative reading of the goods consumed by working-class women in New York City at the turn of the twentieth century offers a fresh and illuminating perspective on and advances our understanding of the lived experience of work and leisure in the Gilded Age and Progressive era.
Nancy Gabin American Historical Review Ladies of Labor represents an important contribution ... Read more
Nancy Gabin American Historical Review Ladies of Labor represents an important contribution ... Read more