Women, Work, and Activism

Women, Work, and Activism

Chapters of an Inclusive History of Labor in the Long Twentieth Century

Tolomelli, Marica; Betti, Eloisa; Papastefanaki, Leda; Zimmermann, Susan

Central European University Press

09/2022

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List of Acronyms

List of Tables and Figures

Acknowledgments


Introduction. Thinking the History of Women's Activism into Global Labor History

Eloisa Betti, Leda Papastefanaki, Marica Tolomelli, and Susan Zimmermann


PART I. TOWARD INCLUSIVE FRAMINGS: WOMEN'S LABOR ACTIVISM IN MEN- AND WOMEN-DOMINATED CONTEXTS


Women in the Mutual Societies of Portugal from the End of the Nineteenth Century to the 1930s

Virginia Baptista and Paulo Marques Alves


The Female Staff in the PTT International between Trade Unionism and Feminism from the Early Twentieth Century to the Interwar Period

Laura Savelli


Women and the Labor Movement under a Dictatorship: Comisiones Obreras (Workers' Commissions) in Greater Barcelona during Franco's Dictatorship and the Transition to Democracy (1964-1981)

Nadia Varo Moral


"Traditionally Reserved for Men": Australian Trade Unions and the 1970s Working Women's Campaign for Liberation

Diane Kirkby, Lee-Ann Monk, and Emma Robertson


PART II. WOMEN IN MOTION: RETHINKING AGENCY AND ACTIVISM AT THE WORKPLACE AND BEYOND


The Strike, the Household, the Gendered Division of Labor, and International Networks: Women Auxiliaries and the Ship Repair Workers' Strike (Genoa, 1955)

Marco Caligari


"In Order to Safeguard the Lives of Our Children and Families": Resistance and Protest of Women Workers in the Greek Tobacco Industry, 1945-1970

Thanasis Betas


Inside the Factory, Outside the Party-state: The Agency of Yugoslav Women Workers in Late Socialism (1976-1989)

Rory Archer


Work and the Politics of the Injured Body: Nurse Activism, Occupational Risk, and the Politics of Care in the United States

Elizabeth Faue


PART III. HOW THE PERSONAL REVEALS THE POLITICAL: WOMEN ACTIVISTS BIOGRAPHIES AND BEYOND


Women Activists' Relationship to Peasant Women's Work in Yugoslavia in the 1930s

Isidora Grubacki


Women in the Trade Union Movement and Their Biographies: The Camera del Lavoro (Chamber of Labor) in Milan (1945-1965)

Debora Migliucci


French Trade Unionists Go International: The Circulation of Ideas on the Education and Training of Women Workers in the 1950s and 1960s

Francoise F. Laot


Trade Union Feminism in Lyon: Commissions-femmes as Sites of Resistance and Well-being in the 1970s

Anna Frisone


Working Women on the Move: Genealogies of Gendered Migrant Labor

Maria Tamboukou


List of Contributors

Chapter Abstracts

Index
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Women's labor activism; gender history; labor history; social movements