The Woman in American HistoryAddison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1971 - 207 pages |
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Page 52
... labor reform legisla- tion to succeed . Increasing mechanization changed factory con- ditions , and semi - skilled labor soon gave way to unskilled labor . With the start of large - scale Irish immigration in the 1840's , the relatively ...
... labor reform legisla- tion to succeed . Increasing mechanization changed factory con- ditions , and semi - skilled labor soon gave way to unskilled labor . With the start of large - scale Irish immigration in the 1840's , the relatively ...
Page 133
... labor organiza- tion in the United States to accept women members on an equal basis was the Knights of Labor , founded in 1869. Women were accepted for membership both in mixed units or " assemblies " and in sex - segregated locals . In ...
... labor organiza- tion in the United States to accept women members on an equal basis was the Knights of Labor , founded in 1869. Women were accepted for membership both in mixed units or " assemblies " and in sex - segregated locals . In ...
Page 134
... Labor and later for the United Mineworkers Union . A slight , motherly figure in a black bon- net , she carried all her possessions with her in her knitted shawl . She claimed that she lived wherever there was a fight against wrong ...
... Labor and later for the United Mineworkers Union . A slight , motherly figure in a black bon- net , she carried all her possessions with her in her knitted shawl . She claimed that she lived wherever there was a fight against wrong ...
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abolitionist American women Angelina Grimké Anne Hutchinson Anthony antislavery became birth control black women Boston campaign career Carrie Chapman Catt cause Charlotte Perkins Charlotte Perkins Gilman child church cities Civil College colonial America colonial women contribution cultural death decades developed Dorothea Dix economic Elizabeth Cady Stanton Emma equal factory federal amendment female suffrage feminist field Frances Frances Wright freedom frontier Gilman girls Grimké Grimké sisters Harriet husband industry Jane Addams labor ladies later leaders leadership legislation literary lives Lucretia Mott male Margaret Sanger marriage married Mary Baker Eddy Massachusetts ment mother National NAWSA nineteenth century nurses NWTUL organized percent pioneer plantation political President reform role Sarah Sarah Grimké sisters slave slavery social society soldiers South southern status struggle suffragists Susan teachers tion United vote wages Willard wives woman suffrage woman's rights movement workers York
References to this book
Theories of Women's Studies Gloria Bowles,Renate Duelli-Klein,Renate Klein No preview available - 1983 |