Daughters of the Shtetl : : Life and Labor in the Immigrant Generation / / Susan A. Glenn.

In this fascinating portrait of Jewish immigrant wage earners, Susan A. Glenn weaves together several strands of social history to show the emergence of an ethnic version of what early twentieth-century Americans called the "New Womanhood." She maintains that during an era when Americans p...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©1991
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (328 p.) :; 17 halftones
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Illustrations --   |t Preface --   |t Introduction --   |t 1. "A Girl Wasn't Much": Jewish Womanhood in Eastern Europe --   |t 2. Mothers and Daughters: Remaking the Jewish Family Economy in America --   |t 3. Unwritten Laws: Work and Opportunity in the Garment Industry --   |t 4. "All of Us Young People": The Social and Cultural Dimensions of Work --   |t 5. Uprisings: Women and the Mass Strike Movement --   |t 6. "As We Are Not Angels": The New Unionism and the New Womanhood --   |t Notes --   |t Index 
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