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  title info:
    title: Women's Work and Politics in WWI America
    sub title: The Munsingwear Family of Minneapolis
  name:
    name part: Olsson, Lars.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIII, 301 p. 9 illus., 1 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: By World War I, the Northwestern Knitting Company was the largest workplace for gainfully employed women in Minnesota and the largest garment factory in the United States. Lars Olsson investigates the interplay of class, gender, marital status, ethnicity, and race in the labor relations at the factory, illuminating the lives of the women who worked there. Representing thirty nationalities, particularly Scandinavian, the women worked long hours for low pay in roles that were strictly divided along ethnic and gendered lines, while the company directors and stockholders made enormous profits off of their labor. Management developed paternal strategies to bind the workers to the company and preempt unionization, including bonus programs, minstrel shows, and a pioneering industrial welfare program. With the US entry into the war, the company was contracted to produce underwear for soldiers, and management expanded the metaphor of "the Munsingwear Family" to construct not just company loyalty, but national loyalty. This book sheds new light on women's labor in WWI and the lives of textile workers in the United States.
  table of contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. The Political Economy of Minneapolis -- 3. The Northwestern Knitting Company-Makers of Munsing Wear -- 4. Divided Work-Women and Men at Work for the Company -- 5. A Non-Union Shop -- 6. "The Munsingwear Family": Industrial Welfare and Paternalism -- 7. Progressivism and Social Work for Women in Minneapolis -- 8. One People, One Language, One Nation: "The Munsingwear Family" -- 9. "The Munsingwear Family" of Minneapolis at War: Conclusions.
  note: by Lars Olsson.
  subject:
    topic: United States-History
  subject:
    topic: Labor-History
  subject:
    topic: Women
  subject:
    topic: World politics
  subject:
    topic: Historical sociology
  subject:
    topic: US History
  subject:
    topic: Labor History
  subject:
    topic: Women's Studies
  subject:
    topic: Political History
  subject:
    topic: Historical Sociology
  classification: E171-183.9
  classification: 973
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319902159
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90215-9
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    record creation date: 180628
    record change date: 20191025122928.0
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