The thirteen critical and well-documented chapters of Women, Work and Activism examine women’s labor struggle from late nineteenth-century Portuguese mutual societies to Yugoslav peasant women’s work in the 1930s, and from the Catalan labor movement under the Franco dictatorship to workplace democracy in the United States. The authors portray women's labor activism in a wide variety of contexts. This includes spontaneous resistance to masculinist trade unionism, the feminist engagement of women workers, the activism of communist wives of workers, and female long-distance migration, among others. The chapters address the gendered involvement of working people in multiple and often precarious and unstable labor relations and in unpaid labor, as well as the role of the state and other institutions in shaping the history of women’s labor.
The book is an innovative contribution to both the new labor history and feminist history. It fully integrates the conceptual advances made by gender historians in the study of labor activism, driving home critiques of Eurocentric historiographies of labor to Europe while simultaneously contributing to an inclusive history of women’s labor-related activism wherever to be found. Examining women’s activism in male-dominated movements and institutions, and in women’s networks and organizations, the authors make a case for a new direction in gender history.
- Cover
- Front Matter
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Acronyms
- List of Tables and Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Thinking the History of Women’s Activism into Global Labor History
- PART ONE: TOWARD INCLUSIVE FRAMINGS
- Women in the Mutual Societies of Portugal from the End of the Nineteenth Century to the 1930s
- The Female Staff in the PTT International between Trade Unionism and Feminism from the Early Twentieth Century to the Interwar Period
- Women and the Labor Movement under a Dictatorship
- “Traditionally Reserved for Men”: Australian Trade Unions and the 1970s Working Women’s Campaign for Liberation
- PART TWO: WOMEN IN MOTION
- The Strike, the Household, the Gendered Division of Labor, and International Networks
- “In Order to Safeguard the Lives of Our Children and Families”: Resistance and Protest of Women Workers in the Greek Tobacco Industry, 1945–1970
- Inside the Factory, Outside the Party-state: The Agency of Yugoslav Women Workers in Late Socialism (1976–1989)
- Work and the Politics of the Injured Body: Nurse Activism, Occupational Risk, and the Politics of Care in the United States
- PART THREE: HOW THE PERSONAL REVEALS THE POLITICAL
- Women Activists’ Relationship to Peasant Women’s Work in Yugoslavia in the 1930s
- Women in the Trade Union Movement and Their Biographies: The Camera del Lavoro (Chamber of Labor) in Milan (1945–1965)
- French Trade Unionists Go International: The Circulation of Ideas on the Education and Training of Women Workers in the1950s and 1960s
- Trade Union Feminism in Lyon: Commissions-femmes as Sites of Resistance and Well-being in the 1970s
- Working Women on the Move: Genealogies of Gendered Migrant Labor
- List of Contributors
- Chapter Abstracts
- Index
- Back Cover
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