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The Diary of a Shirtwaist Striker / Edition 1

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ISBN-10:: 0875461689
ISBN-13:: 9780875461687
Pub. Date:: 08/15/1990
Publisher:: Cornell University Press

ISBN-10:: 0875461689
ISBN-13:: 9780875461687
Pub. Date:: 08/15/1990
Publisher:: Cornell University Press

The Diary of a Shirtwaist Striker / Edition 1

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The Diary of a Shirtwaist Striker was originally published in 1910 by The Cooperative Press. A Russian immigrant who was a journalist and a militant socialist, the author presented her account of the Uprising of the 20,000 as the personal story of a striker.

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ISBN-13:	9780875461687
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Publication date:	08/15/1990
Series:	Literature of American Labor
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.51(d)
Age Range:	18 - 17 Years

About the Author

Theresa S. Malkiel (1874-1949), a Russian Jewish immigrant, was a journalist and a militant socialist.

Françoise Basch is Professor of Anglo-American civilization and women's history at the University of Paris.

What People are Saying About This

Alice Kessler-Harris

It is splendid, finally, to have this novel back in print.... Nothing before or since has so successfully captured the political and emotional spirit of the women's strike of 1909.

Mary Jo Buhle

Malkiel was a politically sophisticated and well-seasoned socialist organizer and propagandist, and she used the medium [of the diary1to draw out certain lessons about the relationship of class and gender from the events of the strike. Françoise Basch's fine introduction provides the necessary context and makes Malkiel's novel/political tract readily accessible to today's readers.

Shelley Fisher Fishkin

"Theresa Malkiel's feminist, feisty, polemical and intensely political novel breathes life into some of the myriad human dramas that animated the early labor movement."

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Very effective in providing a feel for the details of the strike.... It also effectively illuminates the class tensions that existed between the strikers and some of their wealthy female supporters.... Basch's fine introduction makes it a useful teaching text as well.

Labor History

Beautifully captures the emotionally charged atmosphere of the 1909 strike.

Industrial and Labor Relations Review

Strongly recommended to those interested in the history of labour unions, women workers and socialism in North America, as well as to those interested in the origins of feminism in the United States.

Relations Industrielles

Beautifully captures the emotionally charged atmosphere of the 1909 strike.
-- "Industrial and Labor Relations Review"
Strongly recommended to those interested in the history of labour unions, women workers and socialism in North America, as well as to those interested in the origins of feminism in the United States.
-- "Relations Industrielles"
Very effective in providing a feel for the details of the strike.... It also effectively illuminates the class tensions that existed between the strikers and some of their wealthy female supporters.... Basch's fine introduction makes it a useful teaching text as well.
-- "Labor History"

From the Publisher

Written by a Jewish labor activist and socialist militant, this reissue of a fictional contemporaneous account of the 1909 13-week garment-workers' strike on New York City's Lower East Side is a valuable addition to women's and American labor history studies. In an informative but dry introductory essay that comprises half this volume, Basch, a professor of Anglo-American civilization and women's history at the University of Paris, demonstrates how ``the women revolted not only as workers but as women and immigrants, in a space that included home, family, and a new city and country.'' Although most of the strikers were Jewish immigrants, Malkiel's diarist is an American-born Christian whose gradual politicization, feminization and identification with her coworkers is chronicled via the propagandistic, overwritten ``journal,'' as is her resentment toward the millionaire suffragists who supported the strike. The wretched plight of immigrant workers is detailed, from the injustices of the factory itself to the hardships of the picket line, police brutality and mass arrest. The strike effected some concessions from factory owners but apparently not enough, as evinced by the infamous 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire. (Nov.)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

Originally published in 1910, this is a fictional account of the 1909 New York shirtwaist makers' strike, written by a Jewish immigrant who was a labor activist and militant socialist. The informative introduction to this edition is by Francoise Basch, professor of Anglo American civilization and women's history at the U. of Paris. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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