A Needle, a Bobbin, a Strike Women Needleworkers in America

Almost exclusively considered "women's work," the sewing trades have a history of toil, exploitation, and unfinished protest. These essays trace the shift in needleworkers' environments-the home, sweatshop, department store, and factory-from the nineteenth into the twentieth cent...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Temple University Press 1984
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