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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"--
- Subjects
- Hosiery workers
- Strikes and lockouts > Hosiery industry > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History > 20th century
- History
- Hosiery workers > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History > 20th century
- Clothing workers
- 1900-1999
- American Federation of Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers
- Strikes and lockouts > Clothing trade
- Pennsylvania > Philadelphia
- 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