{"product_id":"immigrant-girl-radical-woman-9781501709845","title":"Immigrant Girl Radical Woman","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMatilda Rabinowitz's illustrated memoir challenges assumptions about the lives of early twentieth-century women. In\u003ci\u003e Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman\u003c\/i\u003e, Rabinowitz describes the ways in which she and her contemporaries rejected the intellectual and social restrictions imposed on women as they sought political and economic equality in the first half of the twentieth century. Rabinowitz devoted her labor and commitment to the notion that women should feel entitled to independence, equal rights, equal pay, and sexual and personal autonomy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRabinowitz (18871963) immigrated to the United States from Ukraine at the age of thirteen. Radicalized by her experience in sweatshops, she became an organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World from 1912 to 1917 before choosing single motherhood in 1918. Big Bill Haywood once wrote, a book could be written about Matilda, but her memoir was intended as a private story for her grandchildren, Robbin Légère Henderson among them. Henderson's \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA fascinating, educational and engaging personal story written like a great novel rather than a typical memoir.... Matilda’s story strengthens the resolve of women to find their own place in society in their own time and be inspired. I will recommend \u003ci\u003eImmigrant Girl, Radical Woman\u003c\/i\u003e to my college students as a must read.\u003c\/p\u003e * Israel National News *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOffers a sustained focus on labor in the early twentieth century, including factory conditions for women and men, intra-union dynamics, and the challenges facing working mothers.... Scholars will find much to love in this engaging, touching, and timely memoir that may not have been written for this wider audience but, happily, has found us.\u003c\/p\u003e * Legacy 35.2 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA fascinating interplay between past and present and help us to read between the lines of Matilda's words...Robbins' memoir is recommended to anyone interested in labour organization and women workers in the early years of the 20th century. The ease of reading, illustrations, and Henderson's additions make it an ideal book for assigning to undergraduates\u003c\/p\u003e * Labour\/Le Travail *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e 1. These Were Pioneers, Too\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Journey to America\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Wretched Refuse of Your Teeming Shores\u003cbr\u003e 4. A New Career\u003cbr\u003e 5. Bridgeport and Socialism\u003cbr\u003e 6. I Fell in Love with Him\u003cbr\u003e 7. Little Falls\u003cbr\u003e 8. A Gallery of Radicals\u003cbr\u003e 9. After Little Falls\u003cbr\u003e 10. Greenville, South Carolina, \"The Toughest Job\"\u003cbr\u003e 11. New York, Greenwich, World War I\u003cbr\u003e 12. A New Life (Vita)\u003cbr\u003e 13. Ben Returns\u003cbr\u003e 14. Washington\u003cbr\u003e 15. Ballardvale, Greenwich Village, Cos Cob, St. Louis\u003cbr\u003e Matilda’s Life Following the Events Described in Her Memoir\u003cbr\u003e Afterword\u003cbr\u003e Appendix\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409324417367,"sku":"9781501709845","price":22.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501709845.jpg?v=1730506423","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/immigrant-girl-radical-woman-9781501709845","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}