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Gender and labour/working class history in comparative perspective: the syndicalist and Wobbly experience in the USA, Australia, and New Zealand

An essay incorporating some theoretical insights about gender and labour/working class history that might help to situate the IWW and syndicalism in a new light while problematizing our understanding of the interactions of gender within that history.

Submitted by Juan Conatz on August 27, 2012
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Originally appeared in Left History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Historical Inquiry and Debate Vol 11, No 2 (2006)

Gender and LabourIWorking Class History in Comparative Perspective.pdf (872.52 KB)
  • Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
  • United States
  • syndicalism
  • New Zealand
  • Australia
  • gender
  • Left History
  • Francis Shor
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