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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Language: | English |
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Temple University Press
1984
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Online Access: | Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication Open Access: DOAB, download the publication |
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