TY  - BOOK
AU  - Glenn,Susan A.
TI  - Daughters of the Shtetl: Life and Labor in the Immigrant Generation 
SN  - 9781501741999
AV  - HD6073.C62 
U1  - 331.4/81687/089924 20
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY : 
PB  - Cornell University Press, 
KW  - Clothing workers
KW  - Labor unions
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Jewish women
KW  - Europe, Eastern
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Jews, East European
KW  - Women clothing workers
KW  - Women immigrants
KW  - Women labor union members
KW  - Gender Studies
KW  - Labor History
KW  - U.S. History
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Preface --; Introduction --; 1. "A Girl Wasn't Much": Jewish Womanhood in Eastern Europe --; 2. Mothers and Daughters: Remaking the Jewish Family Economy in America --; 3. Unwritten Laws: Work and Opportunity in the Garment Industry --; 4. "All of Us Young People": The Social and Cultural Dimensions of Work --; 5. Uprisings: Women and the Mass Strike Movement --; 6. "As We Are Not Angels": The New Unionism and the New Womanhood --; Notes --; Index; restricted access
N2  - In this fascinating portrait of Jewish immigrant wage earners, Susan A. Glenn weaves together several strands of social history to show the emergence of an ethnic version of what early twentieth-century Americans called the "New Womanhood." She maintains that during an era when Americans perceived women as temporary workers interested ultimately in marriage and motherhood, these young Jewish women turned the garment industry upside down with a wave of militant strikes and shop-floor activism and helped build the two major clothing workers' unions
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501741999
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501741999
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501741999/original
ER  -