{"product_id":"united-apart-gender-and-the-rise-of-craft-unionism-paperback","title":"United Apart: Gender and the Rise of Craft Unionism - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eIleen A. DeVault\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the late nineteenth century, most jobs were strictly segregated by sex. And yet, despite their separation at work, male and female employees regularly banded together when they or their unions considered striking. In her groundbreaking book, Ileen A. DeVault explores how gender helped to shape the outcome of job actions--and how gender bias became central to unionism in America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCovering the period from the formation of the American Federation of Labor in 1886 to the establishment of the Women's Trade Union League in 1903, DeVault analyzes forty strikes from across the nation in the tobacco, textile, clothing, and boot and shoe industries. She draws extensively on her research in local newspapers as she traces the daily encounters among male and female coworkers in workplaces, homes, and union halls. Jobs considered appropriate for men and those for women were, she finds, sufficiently interdependent that the success of the action depended on both sexes cooperating. At the same time, with their livelihoods at stake, tensions between women and men often appeared.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe AFL entered the twentieth century as the country's primary vehicle for unionized workers, and its attitude toward women formed the basis for virtually all later attempts at their organization. \u003ci\u003eUnited Apart\u003c\/i\u003e transforms conventional wisdom on the rise of the AFL by showing how its member unions developed their central beliefs about female workers and how those beliefs affected male workers as well.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIleen A. DeVault is Associate Professor of Labor History in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. She is the author of\u003ci\u003e Sons and Daughters of Labor: Class and Clerical Work in Turn-of-the-Century Pittsburgh\u003c\/i\u003e, also from Cornell.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 244\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.65 x 9.3 x 6.42 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 18, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51818029678880,"sku":"9780801489266","price":79.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/b72fe6532f2db3a9339196f88da945fa.webp?v=1781115148","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/united-apart-gender-and-the-rise-of-craft-unionism-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}