02612cmm a2200325 4500 214803950 TxAuBib 20120507120000.0 100819s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780807898222 electronic bk. 0807898228 electronic bk. (OCoLC)656841478 N$T eng N$T YDXCP OCLCQ MHW GZM E7B OCLCQ TUU REDDC OCLCQ TxAuBib Guglielmo, Jennifer, 1967- Living the revolution [electronic resource] : Italian women's resistance and radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945 / Jennifer Guglielmo. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2010. 1 online resource (404 p.) : ill. Gender and American culture Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-384) and index. Women's cultures of resistance in Southern Italy -- La sartina (the seamstress) becomes a transnational labor migrant -- The racialization of Southern Italian women -- Surviving the shock of arrival and everyday resistance -- Anarchist feminists and the radical subculture -- The 1909-1919 strike wave and the birth of industrial unionism -- Red scare, the lure of fascism, and diasporic resistance -- Community organizing in a racial hall of mirrors. Guglielmo brings to life the Italian working-class women of New York and New Jersey who helped shape the vibrant radical political culture that expanded into the emerging industrial union movement. Tracing the activism of two generations of women who worked in the needle and textile trades, she explores the ways immigrant women and their American-born daughters drew on Italian traditions of protest to form new urban female networks of everyday resistance and political activism. And she shows how their commitment to revolutionary and transnational social movements diminished as they became whit. Women immigrants Political activity New York (State) New York History. Women in the labor movement New York (State) New York History. Italian American women Political activity New York (State) New York History. Working class women Political activity New York (State) New York History. Radicalism New York (State) New York History. Political science Political Ideologies Fascism & Totalitarianism. Electronic books. Gender and American culture. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=330167 EBSCOhost