Women's Work and Politics in Wwi America: The Munsingwear Family of Minneapolis

by Lars Olsson

Book Overview

By World War I, the Northwestern Knitting Company was the largest workplace for gainfully employed women in Minnesota and the largest garment factory in the United States. Lars Olsson investigates the interplay of class, gender, marital status, ethnicity, and race in the labor relations at the factory, illuminating the lives of the women who worked there. Representing thirty nationalities, particularly Scandinavian, the women worked long hours for...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319902148
• ISBN13: 9783319902142
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 301 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.3"