Purchasing Power : Consumer Organizing, Gender, and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1919-1929 Paperback / softback
by Dana (University of California) Frank
Paperback / softback
Description
Purchasing Power analyses consumer organising tactics and the decline of the Seattle labour movement in the 1920s.
The book examines the transformation of the movement after the famous Seattle General Strike of 1919 by showing that workers organised not only at the point of production, but through politicised consumption as well, employing boycotts, cooperatives, labor-owned businesses, and union label promotion.
It pays special attention to the gender dynamics of labor's consumer campaigns, as trade union men sought to persuade their wives to 'shop union', and to the racial dynamics of campaigns organised by white workers against Seattle's Japanese-American businesses.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:376 pages, 16 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:28/01/1994
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- ISBN:9780521467148
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:376 pages, 16 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:28/01/1994
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521467148