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):

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

Strikes and lockouts.

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

Hosiery workers.

American Federation of Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 pages)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017

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 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.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9798890852519

9798890852526

9781469632957

1469632950

9781469632940

1469632942

OCLC:

974947467