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Writing the Wrongs : Eva Valesh and the Rise of Labor Journalism
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Writing the Wrongs : Eva Valesh and the Rise of Labor Journalism Paperback - 2004

by Faue, Elizabeth

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  • Title Writing the Wrongs : Eva Valesh and the Rise of Labor Journalism
  • Author Faue, Elizabeth
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 249
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cornell University Press
  • Date 2004-12-20
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 12464069-6
  • ISBN 9780801484650 / 0801484650
  • Weight 0.78 lbs (0.35 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.04 x 5.68 x 0.66 in (22.96 x 14.43 x 1.68 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001006507
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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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."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 lays bare the underside of social reform and reveals how front-line workers in labor's political culture--reporters, investigators, and lecturers--provoked and informed American society by writing about social wrongs. 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 meanings of class and gender.

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Elizabeth Faue is Professor of History at Wayne State University and the author of Community of Suffering and Struggle: Women, Men, and the Labor Movement in Minneapolis, 1915-1945.

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