Women’s Labor Activism in the Progressive Era and Marie Van Vorst’s Amanda of the Mill as a Social Propaganda Tool

2018 ◽  
pp. 16-31
Author(s):  
Emıne Gecgıl
Keyword(s):  
Progressive Era ◽  
Women's Labor ◽  
Labor Activism

Liberty, Protection, and Women's Work: Investigating the Boundaries between Public and Private

1996 ◽  
Vol 21 (04) ◽  
pp. 857-899
Author(s):  
Julie Novkov
Keyword(s):  
Progressive Era ◽  
Due Process ◽  
Federal Courts ◽  
Constitutional Theory ◽  
Women's Labor ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Separate Spheres ◽  
Labor Legislation ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship

During the Progressive Era, the U. S. state and federal courts considered constitutional challenges to protective labor legislation. While courts often struck down generalized protective legislation, they frequently upheld such legislation for women. I explore the reasoning in the cases decided between 1897 and 1923, showing that the courts developed understandings of liberty for women that differed from those for men. In opposition to traditional separate spheres reasoning, I show that the courts viewed men's exercise of liberty as depending on their private capacities to be free, while women's labor was subject to public control due to state interest in their reproductive capacities. I suggest that constitutional theorists who are studying substantive due process should place more emphasis on courts'conceptions of the subjects of due process guarantees rather than considering solely the challenged statutes' restriction of liberty. I develop a dynamic and complex understanding of liberty to capture this aspect of the relationship between constitutional theory and gender.

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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