scholarly journals Women’s Labor Activism in Indonesia

Signs ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 510-515
Author(s):  
Michele Ford
Keyword(s):  
Women's Labor ◽  
Labor Activism

Women’s Labor Activism in China

Signs ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 515-518
Author(s):  
Tong Xin
Keyword(s):  
Women's Labor ◽  
Labor Activism

“Riveting the Sinews of Democracy”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keona K. Ervin
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Large Mass ◽  
Women's Labor ◽  
Black Freedom Struggle ◽  
Industrial Plants ◽  
Freedom Struggle ◽  
Civil Rights Organizations ◽  
Labor Activism ◽  
March On Washington ◽  
Working Class Women

Black women’s failed attempts to abandon domestic employment for jobs in the lucrative local defense industry became a central mobilizing agenda around which organizers of the March on Washington movement waged their wartime black freedom struggle. Women aired personal stories of employment discrimination before committees, filed affidavits against large industrial plants, joined picket lines, shared their grievances through letter writing, gave public addresses at large mass meetings, and formed their own civil rights organizations. The narrative that black working-class women activists astutely and persuasively articulated—namely, that of the beleaguered black woman worker excluded from participation in patriotic service—provided a most effective assault on discrimination, exposing the jagged lines of the wartime American democratic practice. Women’s labor activism proved indispensable to the formation of one of the largest and most active March on Washington movement chapters in the country.

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