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

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Author / Creator:	McConnell-Sidorick, Sharon, author.
Imprint:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	American Federation of Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers. American Federation of Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers. Hosiery workers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 20th century. Strikes and lockouts -- Hosiery industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 20th century. Strikes and lockouts -- Hosiery industry. Clothing workers. Hosiery workers. Strikes and lockouts -- Clothing trade. Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11549560

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ISBN:	9781469632964 1469632969 9781469632971 1469632977 9781469632940 1469632942 9781469632957 1469632950
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
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"--
Other form:	Print version: McConnell-Sidorick, Sharon. Silk stockings and socialism. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017] 9781469632940

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