Women Workers' Education, Life Narratives and Politics
Author | : Maria Tamboukou |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2016-12-07 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781137490155 |
ISBN-13 | : 1137490152 |
Rating | : 4/5 (152 Downloads) |
Download or read book Women Workers' Education, Life Narratives and Politics written by Maria Tamboukou and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-07 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights the catalytic role of workers’ education in mobilizing political activism and women’s involvement in labour struggles and politics. Through a comprehensive study of the gendered aspects of workers’ education it explores the intellectual lives of women workers. Drawing on the letters and papers of Fannia Mary Cohn, a prominent figure in the US garment industry’s trade union movement, it discusses and further theorizes the importance of gender as an analytical category in the forceful interaction of labour, education and migration histories. The significance of the visual turn in feminist narrative analytics is considered and the book puts forward a compelling case for the contribution of writing working women in the intellectual and cultural life of the twentieth century.