Living the revolution : Italian women's resistance and radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945 / Jennifer Guglielmo.
Guglielmo brings to life the Italian working-class women of New York and New Jersey who helped shape the vibrant radical political culture that expanded into the emerging industrial union movement. Tracing the activism of two generations of women who worked in the needle and textile trades, she expl...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2010.
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| Series: | Gender & American culture.
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| Summary: | Guglielmo brings to life the Italian working-class women of New York and New Jersey who helped shape the vibrant radical political culture that expanded into the emerging industrial union movement. Tracing the activism of two generations of women who worked in the needle and textile trades, she explores the ways immigrant women and their American-born daughters drew on Italian traditions of protest to form new urban female networks of everyday resistance and political activism. And she shows how their commitment to revolutionary and transnational social movements diminished as they became whit. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (404 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-384) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780807898222 0807898228 9781469604114 1469604116 |