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Silk stockings and socialism : Philadelphia's radical hosiery workers from the Jazz Age to the New Deal

"In an effort to get their rightful due as producers, the young women and men who worked in the hosiery mills of Kensington, the working class heart of Philadelphia, organized the American Federation of Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers (AFFFHW), a movement that swept Philadelphia and eventually h...

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Main Author: McConnell-Sidorick, Sharon, (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2017
Subjects and Genres:
American Federation of Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers.
Hosiery workers > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History > 20th century.
Strikes and lockouts > Hosiery industry > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History > 20th century.
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter One: A Community of Labor
  • Chapter Two: The Evolution of a Fighting Union
  • Chapter Three: From Jazz Babies to Youth Militants
  • Chapter Four: The Firebrands of the Union: Hosiery's Labor Feminists
  • Chapter Five: Martyrs and Working-Class Heroes in the Great Depression
  • Chapter Six: Storming the Bastille: The Triumph of Social Justice Unionism.

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