| Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing, Gender, and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1919 1929 Contributor(s): Frank, Dana (Author), Dana, Frank (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521467144 ISBN-13: 9780521467148 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $37.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1994 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations - History | United States - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 331.893 |
| LCCN: 93000567 |
| Physical Information: 0.92" H x 6.02" W x 8.78" (1.10 lbs) 376 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |