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The necessity of organization : Mary Kenney O'Sullivan and trade unionism for women, 1892-1912 / Kathleen Banks Nutter.
Lippincott Library HD6079.2.U5 N88 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nutter, Kathleen Banks.
- Series:
- Garland studies in the history of American labor
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- O'Sullivan, Mary Kenney, 1864-1943.
- O'Sullivan, Mary Kenney.
- Women's Trade Union League of America--History.
- Women's Trade Union League of America.
- Women labor union members--United States--History.
- Women labor union members.
- History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 207 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Garland Pub., 2000.
- Summary:
- "The Necessity of Organization" describes Mary Kenney O'Sullivan's struggle to improve labor conditions through trade unionism. Appointed the first woman organizer for the American Federation of Labor in 1892, she went on to be a co-founder of the Women's Trade Union League, formed in 1903 as a cross-class alliance of women workers and their middle- and upper-class allies. The possibilities and limits of trade unionism for women, given the class and gender constraints of the period, are the focus of this book. (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Massachusetts, 1998; revised with new preface, bibliography, and index)
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0815335059
- OCLC:
- 41482376
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