Writing the Wrongs : : Eva Valesh and the Rise of Labor Journalism / / Elizabeth Faue.

Eva McDonald Valesh was one of the Progressive Era's foremost labor publicists. Challenging the narrow confines placed on women, Valesh became a successful investigative journalist, organizer, and public speaker for labor reform.Valesh was a compatriot of the labor leaders of her day and the &q...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2004
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.) :; 12 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION. TRUTH-TELLING FICTIONS
  • CHAPTER 1. STEALING THE TRADE
  • CHAPTER 2. "AN OBJECT OF SOLICITUDE AT ELECTION TIME"
  • CHAPTER 3. TELLING TALES
  • CHAPTER 4. "THEY WALK ON MY COLLAR IN THEIR PARTY ORGANS"
  • CHAPTER 5. FROM STRIKES TO STRINGS
  • CHAPTER 6. "A SLIM CHANCE OF MAKING GOOD"
  • CHAPTER 7. SAMUEL GOMPERS'S "RIGHT-HAND MAN"
  • CHAPTER 8. "JOAN OF ARC OF THE WOMEN OF THE LABORING CLASSES"
  • CONCLUSION. PROOFING THE TRUTH
  • NOTES
  • ESSAY ON SOURCES
  • PRIMARY SOURCES
  • INDEX