Research Catalog

Title

Women of industry and reform : shaping the history of Pennsylvania, 1865-1940 / Marion W. Roydhouse.

Author

Roydhouse, Marion W. (Marion Winifred), 1949-

Publication

University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania Historical Association, ©2007.

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Additional Authors

Pennsylvania Historical Association.

Description

106 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Pennsylvania history studies ; no. 29

Uniform Title

Pennsylvania history studies ; no. 29.

Subject

• Women > History. > Pennsylvania
• Women social reformers > Pennsylvania > History
• Women > Pennsylvania > History
• Women
• Women > Employment
• Women social reformers
• Pennsylvania

Genre/Form

• History
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 97-104).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Pennsylvania and women's history -- Women in a state of transition, 1865-1880. At the close of the Civil War ; In the countryside ; Coal mining towns and rural industrial life ; The Centennial Exhibition : industrial might and women's rights -- Cities of industry, 1880-1920. The working lives of urban women ; Pittsburgh : women and work in the Steel City ; Philadelphia : life and labor in the Workshop of the World -- The progressive reformers, 1880-1920. Contrasting worlds : the lives of wealthy women ; Traditions of reform ; Friendly visitors and slum relief ; The suffrage campaigns -- Pennsylvania women and the labor movement, 1880-1920. On the front lines ; Struggle for control in the silk mills ; The Shirtwaist Workers' Strike of 1909 -- Reformers and workers meet on common ground, 189-1940. The YWCA : crossroads of generations, race, and gender ; Worker education : the Bryn Mawr Summer School ; Battling the Great Depression -- Pennsylvania in a world of transition.

ISBN

• 1932304371
• 9781932304374

LCCN

^^2007274869

OCLC

123171239

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library