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"It is splendid, finally, to have this novel back in print.... Nothing before or since has so successfully captured the political and emotional spirit of the women's strike of 1909."―Alice Kessler-Harris, Rutgers University
"Malkiel was a politically sophisticated and well-seasoned socialist organizer and propagandist, and she used the medium [of the diary1to draw out certain lessons about the relationship of class and gender from the events of the strike. Françoise Basch's fine introduction provides the necessary context and makes Malkiel's novel/political tract readily accessible to today's readers."―Mary Jo Buhle, Brown University
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Written by a Jewish labor activist and socialist militant, this reissue of a fictional contemporaneous account of the 1909 13-week garment-workers' strike on New York City's Lower East Side is a valuable addition to women's and American labor history studies. In an informative but dry introductory essay that comprises half this volume, Basch, a professor of Anglo-American civilization and women's history at the University of Paris, demonstrates how "the women revolted not only as workers but as women and immigrants, in a space that included home, family, and a new city and country." Although most of the strikers were Jewish immigrants, Malkiel's diarist is an American-born Christian whose gradual politicization, feminization and identification with her coworkers is chronicled via the propagandistic, overwritten "journal," as is her resentment toward the millionaire suffragists who supported the strike. The wretched plight of immigrant workers is detailed, from the injustices of the factory itself to the hardships of the picket line, police brutality and mass arrest. The strike effected some concessions from factory owners but apparently not enough, as evinced by the infamous 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire.
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"Beautifully captures the emotionally charged atmosphere of the 1909 strike."
(Industrial and Labor Relations Review)"Strongly recommended to those interested in the history of labour unions, women workers and socialism in North America, as well as to those interested in the origins of feminism in the United States."
(Relations Industrielles)"Very effective in providing a feel for the details of the strike.... It also effectively illuminates the class tensions that existed between the strikers and some of their wealthy female supporters.... Basch's fine introduction makes it a useful teaching text as well."
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