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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- Introduction: The Language and the Limits of Anti-Sweatshop Organizing 1
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Part I: Race, Class, Gender, and Defining the Sweatshop and Modern Shop in Progressive America
- Introduction 19
- One. Eastern European Jews and the Rise of a Transnational Garment Economy 23
- Two. “The Great Jewish Métier”: Factory Inspectors, Jewish Workers, and Defining the Sweatshop, 1880–1910 42
- Three. “A Race Ignorant, Miserable, and Immoral”: Sweatshop Danger and Labor in the Home, 1890–1910 61
- Four. Workers Made Well: Home, Work, Homework, and the Model Shop, 1910–1930 77
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Part II. Women and Gender in the Sweatshop and in the Anti-Sweatshop Campaign
- Introduction 101
- Five. Gaunt Men, Gaunt Wives: Femininity, Masculinity, and the Worker Question, 1880–1909 105
- Six. Inspecting Bodies: Sexual Difference and Strategies of Organizing, 1910–1930 132
- Seven. “Swallowed Up in a Sea of Masculinity”: Factionalism and Gender Struggles in the ILGWU, 1909–1934 155
- Conclusion: “Our Marching Orders . . . Advance toward the Goal of Industrial Decency”: Measuring the Burden of Language 181
- Epilogue: Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns in a New Century 188
- Notes 197
- Index 253
- About the Author 273
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- Introduction: The Language and the Limits of Anti-Sweatshop Organizing 1
-
Part I: Race, Class, Gender, and Defining the Sweatshop and Modern Shop in Progressive America
- Introduction 19
- One. Eastern European Jews and the Rise of a Transnational Garment Economy 23
- Two. “The Great Jewish Métier”: Factory Inspectors, Jewish Workers, and Defining the Sweatshop, 1880–1910 42
- Three. “A Race Ignorant, Miserable, and Immoral”: Sweatshop Danger and Labor in the Home, 1890–1910 61
- Four. Workers Made Well: Home, Work, Homework, and the Model Shop, 1910–1930 77
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Part II. Women and Gender in the Sweatshop and in the Anti-Sweatshop Campaign
- Introduction 101
- Five. Gaunt Men, Gaunt Wives: Femininity, Masculinity, and the Worker Question, 1880–1909 105
- Six. Inspecting Bodies: Sexual Difference and Strategies of Organizing, 1910–1930 132
- Seven. “Swallowed Up in a Sea of Masculinity”: Factionalism and Gender Struggles in the ILGWU, 1909–1934 155
- Conclusion: “Our Marching Orders . . . Advance toward the Goal of Industrial Decency”: Measuring the Burden of Language 181
- Epilogue: Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns in a New Century 188
- Notes 197
- Index 253
- About the Author 273