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A Needle, a bobbin, a strike [electronic resource] : women needleworkers in America / edited by Joan M. Jensen and Sue Davidson.

Davidson, Sue, 1925- (Added Author). Jensen, Joan M. (Added Author).

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Record details

  • ISBN: 1439917906
  • ISBN: 9781439917909
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 304 pages : illustrations
  • Publisher: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1984.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Foreword / Michelle Haberland - Introduction / Sue Davidson - Part I. Needlework as art, craft, and livelihood before 1900 - [Part I Introduction] / Joan M. Jensen - "If I didn't have my sewing machine ...": women and sewing machine technology / Ava Barm and Susan E. Klepp - "A paradise of fashion": A.T. Stewart's Department Store, 1862-1875 / Deborah S. Gardner - Part II. The great uprisings: 1900-1920 - [Part II Introduction] ; The great uprising in Rochester / Joan M. Jensen - The uprising in Chicago: the Men's Garment Workers Strike, 1910-1911 / N. Sue Weiler - The great uprising in Cleveland: when sisterhood failed / Lois Scharf - The uprising of the 20,000: the making of labor legend / Ann Schofield - Part III. Inside and outside the unions: 1920-1980 - [Part III Introduction] / Joan M. Jensen - Dorothy Jacobs Bellanca: women clothing workers and the runaway shops / Nina Asher - Women at Farah: at unfinished story / Laurie Coyle, Gail Hersbatter and Emily Honig - A stitch in our time: New York's Hispanic garment workers in the 1980s / Elizabeth Weiner and Hardy Green.
Subject: Labor unions > United States > Clothing workers.
Strikes and lockouts > Clothing trade > United States.
Women clothing workers > United States > History.