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Karen Pastorello s pathbreaking study is the first biography of Bessie Abramowitz Hillman and the first scholarship to place this remarkable leader at the center of the founding of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Bridging the gap between progressive-era social feminists and labor feminists of the postwar era, Hillman worked to end race and class injustice and improve the quality of life for working women, even as she was overshadowed by her husband, union leader Sidney Hillman. Interweaving Hillman s experiences as an Eastern European Jewish immigrant with a rich historical...

The Progressives offers comprehensive coverage of the origins, evolution, and notable events that came to define the pivotal period of American history known as the Progressive Era.

• Offers a rich, in-depth analysis of who the progressives were and the process through which they identified and attacked social, economic, and political injustices
• Features an up-to-date synthesis of the literature of the field including comprehensive treatment of the role of women in the Progressive Movement
• Considers the movement's enduring impact - and how its...

The Progressives offers comprehensive coverage of the origins, evolution, and notable events that came to define the pivotal period of American history known as the Progressive Era.

• Offers a rich, in-depth analysis of who the progressives were and the process through which they identified and attacked social, economic, and political injustices
• Features an up-to-date synthesis of the literature of the field including comprehensive treatment of the role of women in the Progressive Movement
• Considers the movement's enduring impact - and how its...

Women Will Vote celebrates the 2017 centenary of women's right to full suffrage in New York State. Susan Goodier and Karen Pastorello highlight the activism of rural, urban, African American, Jewish, immigrant, and European American women, as well as...