Radicals Of The Worst Sort
Laboring Women in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1860-1912
How working-class women set the tone for labor action in the textile industry
Paper – $28
978-0-252-06318-3
Publication Date
Paperback: 04/01/1995
About the Book
Ardis Cameron focuses on the textile workers' strikes of 1882 and 1912 in this examination of class and gender formation as drawn from the experience and language of the working-class neighborhoods of Lawrence, Massachusetts. She shows clearly that the working women who unionized and fought for equality were considered the "worst sort" because they challenged both economic and sexual hierarchies, providing alternative models for turn-of-the-century women.About the Author
Ardis Cameron is a professor of American and New England studies at the University of Southern Maine. She is the author of Unbuttoning America: A Biography of Peyton Place and editor of Looking for America: The Visual Production of Nation and People.Reviews
Blurbs
"Will be greeted as a major contribution to a rich and rapidly expanding area of research on working women."--Thomas Dublin, author of Women at Work: The Transformation of Work and Community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826-1860
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