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Article: Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture, and Labor Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. (Book Reviews).(Review)
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- Michigan Historical Review
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- September 22, 2001
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Nan Enstad. Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture, and Labor Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. Pp. 320. Bibliography. Index. Cloth, $52.00; paper, $17.50.
Garment workers who went on strike in 1909 were also consumers of fashion and popular culture. Through their consumption of clothing, dime novels, and movies, they constructed identifies as workers, ladies, and Americans, three categories from which they were often excluded because of their ethnic heritages, gender, and class. These identities served as the foundation of political subjectivities that gave them the strength ...