Annelise Orleck

Feminism and the Labor Movement: A Century of Collaboration and Conflict

New Labor Forum 20(1): 33-41, Winter 2011 Copyright ? Joseph S. Murphy Institute, CUNY ISSN: 1095-7960/11 print, DOI: 10.4179/NLF.201.0000006 the labor movements. Still, the priorities of the womens movement for sex-based rights and those of the labor movement for class solidarity often diverged during the twentieth century. Working-class feminists struggled against middle-class feminists who focused primarily on achieving equality with male professionals and executives. They also battled men who sought to exclude women from unionized jobs and who denied organized women workers a full share of power in the labor movement.

What if Poor Women Ran Their Own Antipoverty Programs

Annelise Orleck, author of Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty, is interviewed by her partner of 20 years, journalist Alexis Jetter.

“To Do & to Be”: Portraits of Four Women Activists, 1893–1986. By Ann Schofield. (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1997. xii, 183 pp. Cloth,

Gertrude Barnum (1866-1948), Mary Dreier (1876-1963), Pauline Newman (c.1888-1986), and Rose Pesotta (1896-1965) are the subjects of this fascinating study. Ann Schofield examines their personal lives along with their contributions to the suffrage, feminist, settlement house, and trade union movements in the early 20th century, and shows how these courageous activists helped to define a new model of womanhood that incorporated waged labor into the female life cycle.