 | United Apart: Gender and the Rise of Craft Unionism Subjects: Women labor union members -- United States -- History; Sexism -- United States -- History; Strikes and lockouts -- United States -- History; Labor unions -- United States -- History; Women employees -- United States -- History; In 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... Ileen A. DeVault is Associate Professor of Labor History in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. She is the author of Sons and Daughters of Labor: Class and Clerical Work in Turn-of-the-Century Pittsburgh , also from Cornell. |
