Common Sense and a Little Fire, Second Edition: Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965
- ISBN-10
- 1469635925
- ISBN-13
- 9781469635927
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 425
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-10-17
- Publisher
- UNC Press Books
- Author
- Annelise Orleck
Description
Over twenty years after its initial publication, Annelise Orleck's Common Sense and a Little Fire continues to resonate with its harrowing story of activism, labor, and women's history. Orleck traces the personal and public lives of four immigrant women activists who left a lasting imprint on American politics. Though they have rarely made more than cameo appearances in previous histories, Rose Schneiderman, Fannia Cohn, Clara Lemlich Shavelson, and Pauline Newman played important roles in the emergence of organized labor, the New Deal welfare state, adult education, and the modern women's movement. Orleck takes her four subjects from turbulent, turn-of-the-century Eastern Europe to the radical ferment of New York's Lower East Side and the gaslit tenements where young workers studied together. Orleck paints a compelling picture of housewives' food and rent protests, of grim conditions in the garment shops, of factory-floor friendships that laid the basis for a mass uprising of young women garment workers, and of the impassioned rallies working women organized for suffrage. Featuring a new preface by the author, this new edition reasserts itself as a pivotal text in twentieth-century labor history.
Get the book
Similar books
-
Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965
By Annelise OrleckCommon Sense and a Little Fire traces the personal and public lives of four immigrant women activists who left a lasting imprint on American politics.
-
Common Sense and a Little Fire
By Annelise OrleckFeaturing a new preface by the author, this new edition reasserts itself as a pivotal text in twentieth-century labor history.
-
Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Ouf-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine
By Glenn BeckGlenn Beck, the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Reset, revisits Thomas Paine's Common Sense.
-
Gender and Jim Crow, Second Edition: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920
By Glenda Elizabeth GilmoreA Statistical Record of the Progress of Public Education in North Carolina, 1870– 1906. Raleigh: Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, 1907. —. “Where Negroes May Not Go,” Harper's Weekly 48 ...
-
Worn: A People's History of Clothing
By Sofi Thanhauser"We learn that, if we were a bit more curious about our clothes, they would offer us rich, interesting and often surprising insights into human history...a deep and sustained inquiry into the origins of what we wear, and what we have worn ...
-
Working Women in American Literature, 1865–1950
By Miriam S. GogolRayne, M. L. What Can a Woman Do; or, Her Position in the Business and Literary World. ... Stephanie Browner, “Gender, Medicine, and Literature in Postbellum Fiction,” in Profound Science and Elegant Literature: Imagining Doctors in ...
-
The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America
By Philip K. HowardThe current system is broken. Law is supposed to be a framework for humans to make choices, not the replacement for free choice.” So notes Philip K. Howard in the new Afterword to his explosive manifesto The Death of Common Sense.
-
A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms: Level Up Your Core Programming Skills
By Jay WengrowYou’ll even encounter a single keyword that can give your code a turbo boost. Jay Wengrow brings to this book the key teaching practices he developed as a web development bootcamp founder and educator.
-
Little Fires Everywhere (Movie Tie-In): A Novel
By Celeste NgNow a Hulu original series starring Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington. “I read Little Fires Everywhere in a single, breathless sitting.” —Jodi Picoult “To say I love this book is an understatement.
-
Try Common Sense: Replacing the Failed Ideologies of Right and Left
By Philip K. Howard... George Bernard, 74 shipbuilding, 112 Simpler (Sunstein), 54 Simpson-Bowles Commission, 119, 207n Sinatra, Frank, 155 Slater, Philip, 37 social capital, 133–134, 138, 139, 142,144 social sanctions, 140–141 Soviet-Harvard delusion, ...