- Description
- 1 online resource (xii, 280 pages) : illustrations, map.
- 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"--
- Uniform Title
- Silk stockings and socialism (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Silk stockings and socialism (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- LCCN
- 2016036381
- OCLC
- ssj0001770341
- Author
McConnell-Sidorick, Sharon.
- Title
Silk stockings and socialism [electronic resource] : Philadelphia's radical hosiery workers from the Jazz Age to the New Deal / Sharon McConnell-Sidorick.
- Imprint
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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