Once a Cigar Maker: Men, Women, and Work Culture in American Cigar Factories, 1900-1919

by Patricia A. Cooper

Book Overview

Patricia A. Cooper charts the course of competition, conflict, and camaraderie among American cigar makers during the two decades that preceded mechanization of their work. In the process, she reconstructs the work culture, traditions, and daily lives of the male cigar makers who were members of the Cigar Makers' International Union of America (CMIU) and of the nonunion women who made cigars under a division of labor called the "team system." But...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252013336
• ISBN13: 9780252013331
• Release Date: June 1987
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"