Women's Work and Politics in WWI America The Munsingwear Family of Minneapolis /

• Main Author: Olsson, Lars (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: United States-History.; Labor-History.; Women.; World politics.; Historical sociology.; US History.; Labor History.; Women's Studies.; Political History.; Historical Sociology.

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 facto...

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.