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.

Physical Description:

xii, 280 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The 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 movement that 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 how radical 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.

Contents:

Chapter One: A Community of Labor

Chapter Two: The Evolution of a Fighting Union

Chapter Three: From Jazz Babies to Youth Militants

Chapter Four: The Firebrands of the Union: Hosiery's Labor Feminists

Chapter Five: Martyrs and Working-Class Heroes in the Great Depression

Chapter Six: Storming the Bastille: The Triumph of Social Justice Unionism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

HSP Credit Line -- 1) Kensington and Allegheny Avenues intersection photograph, 1940, Philadelphia Record Photograph Morgue [V07]. Page 73.; 2) Women hosiery mill strikers in jail photograph, 1930-1931, Philadelphia Record Photograph Morgue [V07]. Page 100.; 3) Apex Hosiery Company women strikers, 1937, Philadelphia Record Photograph Morgue [V07]. Page 107.; 4) Funeral procession for slain striker photograph, 1933, Philadelphia Record Photograph Morgue [V07]. Page 157.; 5) Carl Mackley Houses murals, Philadelphia Record Photograph Morgue [V07]. Page 205.

ISBN:

9781469632957

1469632950

OCLC:

956501065