Living the Revolution Italian Women's Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945

Name: Living the Revolution Italian Women's Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945
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ISBN: 9780807872246

ISBN-10: 0807872245

ISBN-13: 9780807872246

Edition: 2012

Authors: Jennifer Guglielmo

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Italians were the largest group of immigrants to the United States at the turn of the twentieth century, and hundreds of thousands led and participated in some of the period's most volatile labor strikes. Jennifer 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 era's emerging industrial union movement. Tracing 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.

Book details

List price: $37.50
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 2/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.93" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English

Jennifer Gugliemo is assistant professor of history at Smith College. She is coeditor of <i>Are Italians White?: How Race Is Made in America</i>.



Introduction



Women's Cultures of Resistance in Southern Italy



La Sartina (The Seamstress) Becomes a Transnational Labor Migrant



The Racialization of Southern Italian Women



Surviving the Shock of Arrival and Everyday Resistance



Anarchist Feminists and the Radical Subculture



The 1909-1919 Strike Wave and the Birth of Industrial Unionism



Red Scare, the Lure of Fascism, and Diasporic Resistance



Community Organizing in a Racial Hall of Mirrors


Conclusions


Notes


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index