Unorganized Women: Repetitive Rhetorical Labor and Low-Wage Workers, 1834-1937

by Jane Greer

Across a range of industrial, domestic, and agricultural sites, Greer shows how repetitive discursive performances served as rhetorical tools as women workers sought to rescript power relations in their workplaces and to resist narratives about their laboring lives. The case studies reveal noteworthy patterns in how these women's words helped to construct the complex web of class relations in which they were enmeshed. Rather than a teleological narrative...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822947552
• ISBN13: 9780822947554
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.2"