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Women and Unionism
Robust Unionism
15 May 2019
Abstract
Women have been labor militants since the start of the modern factory system in the 1800s. Indeed, labor historian Philip S. Foner insists that “it was the militancy and perseverance of women workers that laid the foundations of trade unionism-this, in the face of the double obstacle of employer-public hostility and the indifference of most male-dominated unions.”¹
Women constitued about 31 percent of the labor force in the 1950s. By 1988, that figure had grown to 47 percent, and it is expected to go over 50 percent before the turn of the century. While union organizers can point with pride
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- Title
- Women and Unionism
- Creators
- ARTHUR B. Shostak
- Publication Details
- Robust Unionism
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Sociology; Culture and Communication [Historical]
- Other Identifier
- 991020705462604721