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The Rising of the Women: Feminist Solidarity and Class Conflict, 1880-1917
How working-class socialist women changed the course of American history, with a foreword by labor journalist Sarah Jaffe. In this landmark study, Meredith Tax charts the actions of women in working-class, feminist, and socialist movements during the first upsurge of the American labor movement. From the pioneering efforts of Chicago women in the 1880s to the unprecedented New York City shirtwaist strike in 1909 to the 1912 "bread and roses" strike of immigrant textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and from the Socialist Party to the Industrial Workers of the World, Tax gives us a rich narrative of women workers' struggles. Caught between the hostility of male trade unionists, the sexism of male socialist organizers, and the assumptions of middle-class feminists, women workers forged their own demands for economic and political justice. In doing so, Tax argues, a unique form of socialist-feminist class consciousness was created, whose ripples touched the suffrage movement. First published in 1980, The Rising of the Women is a classic of feminist labor history, presented here with a new introduction by the author and a new foreword by Sarah Jaffe.
Book Details
- Publisher: Verso
- Publish Date: Apr 5th, 2022
- Pages: 368
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.20in - 5.50in - 1.00in - 0.75lb
- EAN: 9781839765742
- Categories: • Feminism & Feminist Theory• Women• Social History
About the Author
Meredith Tax is a leading figure in the US women's liberation movement, and the author of several books including the novel Rivington Street and the children's book Families. A pioneering campaigner for reproductive rights, she also helped to establish the PEN American Center Women's Committee and advocates for global free speech and secular voices. Sarah Jaffe is the author of Work Won't Love You Back and Necessary Trouble, and an independent journalist covering the politics of power, from the workplace to the streets. She is a reporting fellow at Type Media Center.
Praise for this book
"Tax provides an encyclopedic denouement that deconstructs the political and social factors that caused this backlash and explores the rifts that developed between workers as the attacks unfolded. To wit, she highlights the redbaiting that was stoked by male unionists who refused to recognize the invaluable strike support provided by women in the Socialist Party ... exciting and moving."
--Indypendent "The Rising of the Women is both a nuanced historical account and a useful guide for organizers. Its comparative approach, which explores case studies from a range of times and places, documents a suggestive pattern in American labor history: The past successes that Tax examines all relied on the active role of a women's movement, which deepened the strength of the political coalition and ensured that the interests of women and other marginalized workers were fully included. Tax's work offers evidence--from history, not theory--that an autonomous women's movement is not only compatible with class struggle but critical to its success."
--Avi Steinberg, Jewish Currents "Life in 2022 remains a sometimes overwhelmingly bleak struggle, and so we read books like The Rising of the Women to propel our activist journey--shoulder to shoulder, hearts open, fists high!"
--Blanche Wiesen Cook, LIBER "At a time when movements for social justice have all too often become just another vehicle to irrelevance in the electoral realm and the Left is a divided shadow of what it was a couple decades ago, This reprinting of The Rising of the Women is both necessary and timely. In telling this story of the struggle for working women's rights, the author reminds us of what is possible while also reminding us that seemingly insurmountable differences among those fighting for social justice should not be an excuse not to seek common ground and get on with the struggle. [An] outstanding history."
--Ron Jacobs, Counterpunch
--Indypendent "The Rising of the Women is both a nuanced historical account and a useful guide for organizers. Its comparative approach, which explores case studies from a range of times and places, documents a suggestive pattern in American labor history: The past successes that Tax examines all relied on the active role of a women's movement, which deepened the strength of the political coalition and ensured that the interests of women and other marginalized workers were fully included. Tax's work offers evidence--from history, not theory--that an autonomous women's movement is not only compatible with class struggle but critical to its success."
--Avi Steinberg, Jewish Currents "Life in 2022 remains a sometimes overwhelmingly bleak struggle, and so we read books like The Rising of the Women to propel our activist journey--shoulder to shoulder, hearts open, fists high!"
--Blanche Wiesen Cook, LIBER "At a time when movements for social justice have all too often become just another vehicle to irrelevance in the electoral realm and the Left is a divided shadow of what it was a couple decades ago, This reprinting of The Rising of the Women is both necessary and timely. In telling this story of the struggle for working women's rights, the author reminds us of what is possible while also reminding us that seemingly insurmountable differences among those fighting for social justice should not be an excuse not to seek common ground and get on with the struggle. [An] outstanding history."
--Ron Jacobs, Counterpunch