TY  - BOOK
AU  - McConnell-Sidorick,Sharon
TI  - Silk stockings and socialism: Philadelphia's radical hosiery workers from the Jazz Age to the New Deal 
SN  - 9781469632964
AV  - HD8039 .S555 2017
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - American Federation of Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers
KW  - Hosiery workers
KW  - Pennsylvania
KW  - Philadelphia
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Strikes and lockouts
KW  - Hosiery industry
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Cover ; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 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; Epilogue; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P ; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; 2; b
N2  - "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 had a significant impact on the creation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, the New Deal, and labor feminism. In the first history of this remarkable union, Sharon McConnell-Sidorick tells the story of how radical socialist unionists explicitly tapped into Jazz Age culture to build a militant youth movement whose young men and women continued dancing, partying, and flouting Prohibition while at the same time attending labor education sessions and engaging in battles with police"--
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