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A Needle, a Bobbin, a Strike: Women Needleworkers in America: Contents

A Needle, a Bobbin, a Strike: Women Needleworkers in America

Contents

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION by Sue Davidson

I: Needlework as Art, Craft, and Livelihood before 1900

Joan M. Jensen

1. “If I Didn’t Have My Sewing Machine . . .”: Women and Sewing-Machine Technology

Ava Baron and Susan E. Klepp

2. “A Paradise of Fashion”: A. T. Stewart’s Department Store, 1862–1875

Deborah S. Gardner

II: The Great Uprisings: 1900–1920

Joan M. Jensen

3. The Great Uprising in Rochester

Joan M. Jensen

4. The Uprising in Chicago: The Men’s Garment Workers Strike, 1910–1911

N. Sue Weiler

5. The Great Uprising in Cleveland: When Sisterhood Failed

Lois Scharf

6. The Uprising of the 20,000: The Making of a Labor Legend

Ann Schofield

III: Inside and Outside the Unions: 1920–1980

Joan M. Jensen

7. Dorothy Jacobs Bellanca: Women Clothing Workers and the Runaway Shops

Nina Asher

8. Women at Farah: An Unfinished Story

Laurie Coyle, Gail Hershatter, and Emily Honig

9. A Stitch in Our Time: New York’s Hispanic Garment Workers in the 1980s

Elizabeth Weiner and Hardy Green

INDEX

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