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Alice Henry

The Power of Pen and Voice: The Life of an Australian-American Labor Reformer

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A biography of Alice Henry (1857 1943), a pioneer in both the Australian and American labour movements.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 191mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 550g
• ISBN-13: 9780521523240
• ISBN-10: 0521523249
• Artikelnr.: 21548993

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. 'Childhood in a new country': the early years, 1857
1884; 2. 'The sistership of womanhood': an international feminist 1884
1905; 3. 'Suffragizing the labour movement': working for the W.T.U.L. 1906
1910; 4. 'Not mere philanthropy': editing Life and Labor 1911
1915; 5. 'The Trade Union Woman': feminism and industrial legislation 1915
1920; 6. 'Tapping the untouched possibilities': educating women for industrial democracy 1920
1926; 7. 'Letters and a common past': the numbing defeat of old age 1927
1943; Epilogue.