Common Ground of Womanhood Class, Gender, and Working Girls' Clubs, 1884-1928

Name: Common Ground of Womanhood Class, Gender, and Working Girls' Clubs, 1884-1928
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ISBN: 9780252066290

ISBN-10: 0252066294

ISBN-13: 9780252066290

Edition: 1997

Authors: Priscilla Murolo

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Where is the common ground of womanhood? In a unique and highly nuanced study of previously unexplored cross-class alliances, Priscilla Murolo charts the shifting points of consensus and conflict among working women and their genteel club sponsors, working women and their male counterparts, and working women of differing ethnic backgrounds. The working girls' club movement lasted from the 188os, when women poured into the industrial labor force, into the 1920s. Clubs initially were governed by upper-class women, and activities converged around standards of respectability and the defense and uplift of the character of women who worked for wages. Later, the workers themselves presided over…

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List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 8/1/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Daughters of Labor



Quests for Respectability, Demands for Respect



Patrons and Friends



The Woman Question



The Labor Question



Labor Reform



Disintegration


Conclusion



New York Association of Working Girls' Societies: Program, 1889-90



Practical Talks at the 38th Street Society



Club Members' Writing in Far and Near



Interclub Organizations and Projects: Chronology



The NLWW Bureaucracy, 1900 and 1918



Sample Calendars of NLWW Clubs, Fall 1919


Notes


Bibliography


Index