Radicals of the Worst Sort: Laboring Women in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1860-1912

by Ardis Cameron

Book Overview

Ardis Cameron focuses on the textile workers' strikes of 1882 and 1912 in this examination of class and gender formation as drawn from the experience and language of the working-class neighborhoods of Lawrence, Massachusetts. Using the neighborhood perspective to explore the role of women in worker militancy, Cameron reveals the importance of female networks and organizational life in working-class culture and politics. Unionized women were labeled...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025206318X
• ISBN13: 9780252063183
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"