Silk Stockings and Socialism: Philadelphia's Radical Hosiery Workers from the Jazz Age to the New Deal
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The 1920s Jazz Age is remembered for flappers and speakeasies, not for the success of a declining labor movement. A more complex story was unfolding among the young women and men in the hosiery mills of Kensington, the working-class heart of Philadelphia. Their product was silk stockings, the iconic fashion item of the flapper culture then sweeping America and the world. Although the young people who flooded into this booming industry were avid participants...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1469632950
ISBN13:9781469632957
Release Date:April 2017
Publisher:University of North Carolina Press
Length:294 Pages
Weight:1.00 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"
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