Community of Suffering and Struggle: Women, Men, and the Labor Movement in Minneapolis, 1915-1945

by Elizabeth Faue

Book Overview

Elizabeth Faue traces the transformation of the American labor movement from community forms of solidarity to bureaucratic unionism. Arguing that gender is central to understanding this shift, Faue explores women's involvement in labor and political organizations and the role of gender and family ideology in shaping unionism in the twentieth century. Her study of Minneapolis, the site of the important 1934 trucking strike, has broad implications for...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807843075
• ISBN13: 9780807843079
• Release Date: May 1991
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.1"