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1 online resource (xi, 249 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-243) and index. |
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1. Stealing the trade : the making of a labor journalist -- 2. "An object of solicitude at election time" : the Knights, partisanship, and working-class politics revisited -- 3. Telling tales : labor conflict, class politics, and lawlessness in the great streetcar strike of 1889 -- 4. "They walk on my collar in their party organs" : women, partisan speaking, and third-party politics in the late nineteenth century -- 5. From strikes to strings : the trade union woman as journalist, 1892-1895 -- 6. "A slim chance of making good" : labor journalism, yellow journalism, and the new woman -- 7. Samuel Gomper's "right-hand man" : Eva Valesh and the gender of labor's political culture -- 8. "Joan of Arc of the women of the laboring classes" : authentic experience, publicity, and women's cross-class alliances -- conclusion : proofing the truth : Eva Valesh's life and labor. |
| Summary |
"Eva McDonald Valesh was one of the Progressive Era's foremost labor publicists. Challenging the narrow confines placed on women, Valesh became a successful investigative journalist, organizer, and public speaker for labor reform." "Valesh was a compatriot of the labor leaders of her day and the "right-hand man" of Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor. Events she covered during her colorful, unconventional reporting career included the Populist revolt, the Cuban crisis of the 1890s, and the 1910 Shirtwaistmakers' uprising. She was described as bright, even "comet-like," by her admirers, but her enemies saw her as "a pest" who took "all the benefit that her sex controls when in argument with a man."" |
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"Elizabeth Faue examines the pivotal events that transformed this outspoken daughter of a working-class Scots-Irish family into a national political figure, interweaving the study of one woman's fascinating life with insightful analysis of the changing character of American labor reform during the period from 1880 to 1920. In her journey through the worlds of labor, journalism, and politics, Faue reveals the underside of social reform and how front-line workers in labor's political culture - reporters, investigators, and lecturers - provoked and informed American society by writing about social wrongs. |
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Compelling, insightful, and at times humorous, Writing the Wrongs is a window on the Progressive Era, on social history and the new journalism, and on women's lives and the meaning of class and gender."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Valesh, Eva McDonald, 1866-1956.
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Valesh, Eva McDonald, 1866-1956. |
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Valesh, Eva. |
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Journalists -- United States -- Biography.
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Journalists. |
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United States. |
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Biographies.
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Labor journalism -- United States.
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Labor journalism. |
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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Print version: Faue, Elizabeth. Writing the wrongs. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2002 0801434610 (DLC) 2001006507 (OCoLC)48263681 |
| ISBN |
9781501709814 (electronic book) |
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150170981X (electronic book) |
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0801434610 |
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9780801434617 |
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