Annelise Orleck Libros

Focusing on the lives of four immigrant women activists, this book highlights their significant yet overlooked contributions to American politics and social movements. Annelise Orleck explores their journeys from Eastern Europe to New York's Lower East Side, detailing their involvement in labor organization, the New Deal, and the women's movement. Through vivid accounts of protests, factory conditions, and community solidarity, the narrative underscores the impact of these women's activism on shaping modern labor rights and women's suffrage.

"The story of the revolutionary Black women welfare organizers of Las Vegas who spearheaded an evergreen, radical revisioning of American economic justice"-- Provided by publisher

In this enthralling narrative, Annelise Orleck chronicles the history of the American women's movement from the nineteenth century to the present. Starting with an incisive introduction that calls for a reconceptualization of American feminist history to encompass multiple streams of women's activism, she weaves the personal with the political, vividly evoking the events and people who participated in our era's most far-reaching social revolutions. In short, thematic chapters, Orleck enables readers to understand the impact of women's activism, and highlights how feminism has flourished through much of the past century within social movements that have too often been treated as completely separate. Showing that women's activism has taken many forms, has intersected with issues of class and race, and has continued during periods of backlash, Rethinking American Women's Activism is a perfect introduction to the subject for anyone interested in women's history and social movements.

This volume examines both 1970s' and 1990s' Soviet-Jewish immigration to the United States, telling how nearly 500,000 Soviet Jews arrived in the United States between 1967 and 1997. It aims to provide an introduction to the history, politics, and culture of this new American population. číst celé

The story of low-wage workers rising up around the world to demand respect and a living wage. Tracing a new labor movement sparked and sustained by low-wage workers from across the globe, “We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now” is an urgent, illuminating look at globalization as seen through the eyes of workers-activists: small farmers, fast-food servers, retail workers, hotel housekeepers, home-healthcare aides, airport workers, and adjunct professors who are fighting for respect, safety, and a living wage. With original photographs by Liz Cooke and drawing on interviews with activists in many US cities and countries around the world, including Bangladesh, Cambodia, Mexico, South Africa, and the Philippines, it features stories of resistance and rebellion, as well as reflections on hope and change as it rises from the bottom up.