University of Illinois
History 301 (LIR, Sociology 301)
Prof. Diane P. Koenker
Spring 2000


Women and Gender in the Working Class at the Turn of the 20th Century

March 8, 2000


I. Ways of seeing women and gender

II. Women in the workplace - trends

III. Attitudes about women

A. Middle class
B . Marxists (August Bebel's Woman and Socialism [1879])
C. Male workers (read more in the autobiographical selections)
D. Female workers (read more in the autobiographies)

IV. Women fight back (Kathleen Canning on German textile workers)

A. Gendered work cultures
B. Gendered forms of resistance

V. Gender and class




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