A Lifetime of Labor: The Autobiography of Alice H. Cook: The Cross-Cultural Memoir Series
Autor Alice H. Cook Cuvânt înainte de Arlene Kaplan Danielsen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 2000
The work of the indefatigable Alice Hanson Cook has benefitted the lives of working people—and especially working women—on four continents. Her pioneering work in union organizing, worker education, and equal rights for working women took her across the country and around the world, across racial, ethnic, national, and class lines, and across boundries she refused to accept as impassable.
In A Lifetime of Labor, Cook recounts a remarkable life that spans a century and intersects with progressive movements at home and abroad. Booklist calls A Lifetime of Labor “the autobiography of an enduring and persistent activist. Appropriately, the book closes with Cook’s ‘Agenda for Change,’ which calls for a ‘new definition of equality’ to recognize the needs and rights of women and men in their roles as both parents and workers. At age 94, Alice Cook was still fighting the good fight.”
In A Lifetime of Labor, Cook recounts a remarkable life that spans a century and intersects with progressive movements at home and abroad. Booklist calls A Lifetime of Labor “the autobiography of an enduring and persistent activist. Appropriately, the book closes with Cook’s ‘Agenda for Change,’ which calls for a ‘new definition of equality’ to recognize the needs and rights of women and men in their roles as both parents and workers. At age 94, Alice Cook was still fighting the good fight.”
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781558612570
ISBN-10: 1558612572
Pagini: 354
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.49 kg
Editura: The Feminist Press at CUNY
Colecția The Feminist Press at CUNY
Seria The Cross-Cultural Memoir Series
ISBN-10: 1558612572
Pagini: 354
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.49 kg
Editura: The Feminist Press at CUNY
Colecția The Feminist Press at CUNY
Seria The Cross-Cultural Memoir Series
Recenzii
"A spirited autobiography by a pioneering feminist, labor organizer, socialist and scholar."
—Kirkus Reviews
"Drawn from [Cook’s] own diaries and notes, this book is both graceful autobiography and perceptive social history that will be of lasting value."
—Library Journal
"This is a deeply satisfying memoir by a very great lady."
—Times-Picayune (New Orleans)
"Richly rewarding reading, Alice Cook's autobiography seems destined to become one of the most vital histories of progressive women in the twentieth century. . . . She created paths for women at the same time that she promoted industrial democracy. An extremely moving chronicle that connects our own time with social justice struggles nationally and internationally throughout the century."
—Kathryn Kish Sklar, author of Women's Rights Emerges within the Antislavery Movement
"A Lifetime of Labor expands our understanding of the experience of living in the twentieth century as a participant—and leader—in its many progressive movements. . . . Cook made choices, changed directions, shaped lives—and defied almost all of the pre-1960s stereotypes about women's options."
—Ronnie Steinberg, Director of the Women’s Studies Program Emerita, Vanderbilt University
"This book chronicles the remarkable journey of nine decades by a remarkable woman. From her earliest involvement in worker education to her path-breaking research and advocacy for the special challenges faced by working mothers in the major industrialized countries, Cook has set a high standard of excellence and passion for academics and practitioners."
—Robert B. McKersie, author of The Transformation of American Industrial Relations
"This fascinating autobiography, detailing Alice Cook's lifelong involvement in progressive reform, shows us what one woman can accomplish. We have all benefited from Cook's unsurpassed commitment to improving the welfare of working women."
—Mary Beth Norton, author of Separated by their Sex: Women in Public and Private in the Colonial Atlantic World
—Kirkus Reviews
"Drawn from [Cook’s] own diaries and notes, this book is both graceful autobiography and perceptive social history that will be of lasting value."
—Library Journal
"This is a deeply satisfying memoir by a very great lady."
—Times-Picayune (New Orleans)
"Richly rewarding reading, Alice Cook's autobiography seems destined to become one of the most vital histories of progressive women in the twentieth century. . . . She created paths for women at the same time that she promoted industrial democracy. An extremely moving chronicle that connects our own time with social justice struggles nationally and internationally throughout the century."
—Kathryn Kish Sklar, author of Women's Rights Emerges within the Antislavery Movement
"A Lifetime of Labor expands our understanding of the experience of living in the twentieth century as a participant—and leader—in its many progressive movements. . . . Cook made choices, changed directions, shaped lives—and defied almost all of the pre-1960s stereotypes about women's options."
—Ronnie Steinberg, Director of the Women’s Studies Program Emerita, Vanderbilt University
"This book chronicles the remarkable journey of nine decades by a remarkable woman. From her earliest involvement in worker education to her path-breaking research and advocacy for the special challenges faced by working mothers in the major industrialized countries, Cook has set a high standard of excellence and passion for academics and practitioners."
—Robert B. McKersie, author of The Transformation of American Industrial Relations
"This fascinating autobiography, detailing Alice Cook's lifelong involvement in progressive reform, shows us what one woman can accomplish. We have all benefited from Cook's unsurpassed commitment to improving the welfare of working women."
—Mary Beth Norton, author of Separated by their Sex: Women in Public and Private in the Colonial Atlantic World
Notă biografică
Alice H. Cook (1903-1998) was a professor in the New York State College of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University and a member of the executive board of Cornell's Women's Studies Program. Her books include The Most Difficult Revolution: Women and Trade Unions and The Working Mother: A Survey of Problems and Progress in Nine Countries.
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"This book is both graceful autobiography and perceptive social history that will be of lasting value." —Library Journal