Hope and danger in the New South city : working-class women and urban development in Atlanta, 1890-1940 / Georgina Hickey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hickey, Georgina, 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Working class women--Georgia--Atlanta--History.

Working class women.

Atlanta (Ga.)--History.

Atlanta (Ga.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (324 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For Atlanta, the early decades of the twentieth century brought chaotic economic and demographic growth. Women-black and white-emerged as a visible new component of the city's population. As maids and cooks, secretaries and factory workers, these women served the "better classes" in their homes and businesses. They were enthusiastic patrons of the city's new commercial amusements and the mothers of Atlanta's burgeoning working classes. In response to women's growing public presence, as Georgina Hickey reveals, Atlanta's boosters, politicians, and reformers created a set of images that attempted to define the lives and contributions of working women. Through these images, city residents expressed ambivalence toward Atlanta's growth, which, although welcome, also threatened the established racial and gender hierarchies of the city. Using period newspapers, municipal documents, government investigations, organizational records, oral histories, and photographic evidence, Hope and Danger in the New South City relates the experience of working-class women across lines of race-as sources of labor, community members, activists, pleasure seekers, and consumers of social services-to the process of urban development.

Contents:

Rising, ever rising

Laboring women, real and imagined

Public space and leisure time

Class, community, and welfare

Physical and moral health

Political alignments and citizenship rights

The transitional twenties

The forgotten man remembered.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-287) and index.

ISBN:

9786612799884

9781282799882

1282799886

9780820327235

0820327239

OCLC:

671655718