{"product_id":"the-common-ground-of-womanhood-priscilla-murolo-9780252066290","title":"The Common Ground of Womanhood: Class, Gender, and Working Girls' Clubs, 1884-1928","description":"\u003cp\u003eWorking girls' clubs were a flash-point for class antagonisms yet also provided fertile ground for surprising cross-class alliances. Priscilla Murolo's nuanced study charts the shifting points of conflict and consensus between working women and their genteel club sponsors; working women and their male counterparts; and among working women of differing ethnic backgrounds. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe working girls' club movement lasted from the 1880s, when women poured into the industrial labor force, to the 1920s. Upper-class women initially governed the clubs, and activities converged around standards of \"respectability\" and the defense and uplift of the character of women who worked for wages. Later, the workers themselves presided over the leadership and shifted the clubs' focus to issues of labor reform, women's rights, and sisterhood across class lines. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA valuable and lucid study of the club movement, \u003ci\u003eThe Common Ground of Womanhood\u003c\/i\u003e throws new light on broader trends in the history of women's alliances, social reform, gender conventions, and worker organizing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Priscilla Murolo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0252066294\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780252066290\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Illinois Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.94lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.93h x 5.97w x 0.76d","brand":"Priscilla Murolo","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45476837163263,"sku":"9780252066290","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_77baa268-6e7f-4e2a-9cbf-712087614bdd.jpg?v=1715918301","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-common-ground-of-womanhood-priscilla-murolo-9780252066290","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}