Purchasing Power : Consumer Organizing, Gender, and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1919–1929
by
Dana Frank
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0521383676
ISBN-13
9780521383677
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 25th, 1994
Print length
376 Pages
Weight
700 grams
Dimensions
23.40 x 15.60 x 2.20 cms
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This book analyses consumer organising tactics and the decline of the Seattle labour movement in the 1920s.
Purchasing Power analyses consumer organising tactics and the decline of the Seattle labour movement in the 1920s. The book examines the transformation of the movement after the famous Seattle General Strike of 1919 by showing that workers organised not only at the point of production, but through politicised consumption as well, employing boycotts, cooperatives, labor-owned businesses, and union label promotion. It pays special attention to the gender dynamics of labor's consumer campaigns, as trade union men sought to persuade their wives to 'shop union', and to the racial dynamics of campaigns organised by white workers against Seattle's Japanese-American businesses.
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