Strike! the Radical Insurrections of Ellen Dawson.
This is the first biography of Ellen Dawson (1900-1967), a Scottish woman who participated in three of the largest and most dramatic textile strikes in U.S. history--Passaic, New Jersey; New Bedford, Massachusetts; and Gastonia, North Carolina. She helped organize the National Textile Workers Union...
| Основен автор: | McMullen, David Lee. |
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| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Florida :
University Press of Florida,
2010.
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| Серия: |
Working in the Americas.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=486976 |
| Резюме: |
This is the first biography of Ellen Dawson (1900-1967), a Scottish woman who participated in three of the largest and most dramatic textile strikes in U.S. history--Passaic, New Jersey; New Bedford, Massachusetts; and Gastonia, North Carolina. She helped organize the National Textile Workers Union and became the first woman elected to a national leadership position in an American textile union. She spent her formative years in the Glasgow area as a young worker during Scotland's most radical period of labor history. With her family she moved first to England and then to the United States in. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (269 pages). |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780813042978 0813042976 9780813038674 0813038677 |