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The Necessity of Organization

Mary Kenney O'Sullivan and Trade Unionism for Women, 1892-1912
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Mary Kenny O'Sullivan, a wage-earner understood first hand the difficulties faced by the millions of semi-skilled and unskilled women who toiled in America's factories at the end of the 19th-Century. She sought to improve labour conditions through trade unionism. Appointed the first woman organizer for the American Federation of Labour in 1892 she went on to be a co-founder of the Womens' Trade Union League, formed in 1903 this was a cross-class alliance of women workers and their middle and upper class allies. This book charts Kenny O'Sullivan's life from her early days as a labor organizer in Boston during the 1890s to the "Bread and Roses" strike in Lawrence in 1912. The possibilities and limits of trade unionism for women, given the class and gender constraints of the period are the focus of this book.
Release date Australia
November 1st, 1999
Audiences
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • Undergraduate
Pages
232
Dimensions
140x216x21
ISBN-13
9780815335054
Product ID
25719978

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