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050 0 4 _aHD8039
_b.S555 2017
049 _aMAIN
100 1 _aMcConnell-Sidorick, Sharon,
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245 1 0 _aSilk stockings and socialism :
_bPhiladelphia's radical hosiery workers from the Jazz Age to the New Deal /
_cSharon McConnell-Sidorick.
260 _aChapel Hill :
_bUniversity of North Carolina Press,
_c(c)2017.
300 _a1 online resource.
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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520 0 _a"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"--
_cProvided by publisher.
505 0 0 _aCover ; 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
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610 2 0 _aAmerican Federation of Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers.
650 0 _aHosiery workers
_zPennsylvania
_zPhiladelphia
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aStrikes and lockouts
_xHosiery industry
_zPennsylvania
_zPhiladelphia
_xHistory
_y20th century.
655 1 _aElectronic Books.
856 4 0 _uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1484097&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518
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_bCynthia Snell
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_dCynthia Snell