Purchasing Power
Consumer Organizing, Gender, and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1919-1929
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 28 January 1994
- ISBN 9780521467148
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages376 pages
- Size 234x156x20 mm
- Weight 530 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 16 b/w illus. 0
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Short description:
This book analyses consumer organising tactics and the decline of the Seattle labour movement in the 1920s.
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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.
"Frank contributes significantly to the efforts of recent historians to go beyond interpretations of the 1920s as lean years for labor....Purchasing Power will play a key role in an increasingly sophisticated literature on the 1920s, and it deserves a careful read by anyone interested in a precise, detailed analysis of twentieth-century labor, gender, race, and the urban West." Pacific Historical Review
Table of Contents:
Part I. Vision: 1. Solidarity; 2. Cooperatives; 3. Labor Capitalism; Part II. Revision: 4. Counterattack; 5. Boycotts; 6. Depression; 7. Accommodations; Part III. Contraction: 8. Harmony; 9. Label Unionism; Conclusion; Index.
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