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Silk stockings and socialism : Philadelphia's radical hosiery workers from the Jazz Age to the New Deal /

Title: Silk stockings and socialism : Philadelphia's radical hosiery workers from the Jazz Age to the New Deal / Sharon McConnell-Sidorick.
Author: McConnell-Sidorick, Sharon,
Publication: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]

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Description

xii, 280 pages; 24 cm

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"--

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Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

HD8039.H752

ISBN

9781469632940
1469632942
9781469632957
1469632950

LCCN

2016036381

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library