HIST BC 2567x Lecture 8: American women in 20th Day 8

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Historiography of the labor movement: dominated by discussions of american federation of labor (afl) and the congress of. 1930"s, cio formed: had a different approach - industrial unionism . Expanded scope of thinking of organizing away from just labor unions to thinking about resistance: unlike joining a union / etc, resistance takes many forms. Gender and race included in how to think about this. Historians have generated new models of thinking about labor organizing: think about reading - this will come up more later too. A few strands of labor organizing - she will talk about: Iww (industrial workers of the world: radical labor organizing that has essentially been erased from mainstream history, knights of labor. Iww and kol seemed to give women a bit more space in their labor organizing to be leaders: how women"s labor organizers have complicated the narrative of afl.

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