Common Sense and a Little Fire, Second Edition Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965

Name: Common Sense and a Little Fire, Second Edition Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965
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ISBN: 9781469635910

ISBN-10: 1469635917

ISBN-13: 9781469635910

Edition: 2nd 2017

Authors: Annelise Orleck

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Twenty years after its initial publication, Annelise Orleck's Common Sense and a Little Fire continues to resonate with its harrowing story of activism, labor, and women's history. Orleck traces the personal and public lives of four immigrant women activists who left a lasting imprint on American politics. Though they have rarely made more than cameo appearances in previous histories, Rose Schneiderman, Fannia Cohn, Clara Lemlich Shavelson, and Pauline Newman played important roles in the emergence of organized labor, the New Deal welfare state, adult education, and the modern women's movement. Orleck takes her four subjects from turbulent, turn-of-the-century Eastern Europe to the radical…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2017
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 10/2/2017
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 424
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.308
Language: English