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Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing, Gender, and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1919-1929

Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing, Gender, and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1919-1929

Dana Frank
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This book analyzes consumer organizing tactics and the decline of the Seattle labor movement in the 1920s, as a case study of the U.S. labor movement in the 1920s. The book examines the transformation of the movement after the famous Seattle General Strike of 1919 by showing that workers organized not only at the point of production, but through politicized consumption as well, employing boycotts, cooperatives, labor-owned businesses, and union label promotion. It pays special attention to the gender dynamics of labor's consumer campaigns, as trade union men sought to persuade their wives to shop union, and to the racial dynamics of campaigns organized by white workers against Seattle's Japanese-American businesses.
Language
English
Pages
349
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Release
January 28, 1994
ISBN
0521467144
ISBN 13
9780521467148

Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing, Gender, and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1919-1929

Dana Frank
4/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
This book analyzes consumer organizing tactics and the decline of the Seattle labor movement in the 1920s, as a case study of the U.S. labor movement in the 1920s. The book examines the transformation of the movement after the famous Seattle General Strike of 1919 by showing that workers organized not only at the point of production, but through politicized consumption as well, employing boycotts, cooperatives, labor-owned businesses, and union label promotion. It pays special attention to the gender dynamics of labor's consumer campaigns, as trade union men sought to persuade their wives to shop union, and to the racial dynamics of campaigns organized by white workers against Seattle's Japanese-American businesses.
Language
English
Pages
349
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Release
January 28, 1994
ISBN
0521467144
ISBN 13
9780521467148

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