Silk stockings and socialism : Philadelphia's radical hosiery workers from the Jazz Age to the New Deal / Sharon McConnell-Sidorick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McConnell-Sidorick, Sharon, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American Federation of Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers.

Hosiery workers--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--20th century.

Hosiery workers.

Strikes and lockouts--Hosiery industry--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--20th century.

Strikes and lockouts.

Strikes and lockouts--Hosiery industry.

History.

Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Physical Description:

xii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]

Summary:

"In an effort to get their rightful due as producers, the young women and men who worked in the hosiery mills of Kensington, the working class heart of Philadelphia, organized the American Federation of Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers (AFFFHW), a movementthat swept Philadelphia and eventually had a significant impact on the creation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, the New Deal, and labor feminism. In the first history of this remarkable union, Sharon McConnell-Sidorick tells the story of howradical socialist unionists explicitly tapped into Jazz Age culture to build a militant youth movement whose young men and women continued dancing, partying, and flouting Prohibition while at the same time attending labor education sessions and engaging in battles with police"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Gemmill fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9781469632940

1469632942