Radicals of the Worst Sort: Laboring Women in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1860-1912

Ardis Cameron focuses on the textile workers' strikes of 1882 and 1912 in this examination of class and gender formation as drawn from the experience and language of the working-class neighborhoods of Lawrence, Massachusetts. Using the neighborhood perspective to explore the role of women in worker militancy, Cameron reveals the importance of female networks and organizational life in working-class culture and politics. Unionized women were labeled "radicals of the worst sort" because, in fighting for equality, they also rebelled against traditional economic and sexual hierarchies. Oral histories and detailed maps illuminate the setting and the dramatic story behind the famous Bread and Roses strike of 1912.

Author: Ardis Cameron
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 04/01/1995
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.05w x 0.75d
ISBN13: 9780252063183
ISBN10: 025206318X
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Women's Studies
- History | General

About the Author
Ardis Cameron is a professor of American and New England studies at the University of Southern Maine. She is the author of Unbuttoning America: A Biography of Peyton Place and editor of Looking for America: The Visual Production of Nation and People.