Women's Work and Politics in WWI America The Munsingwear Family of M
By World War I, the Northwestern Knitting Company was the largest workplace for gainfully employed women in Minnesota and the largest garment factory in the United States. Lars Olsson investigates the interplay of class, gender, marital status, ethnicity,
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Women’s Work and Politics in WWI America
Lars Olsson
Women’s Work and Politics in WWI America The Munsingwear Family of Minneapolis
Lars Olsson Linnaeus University Kalmar, Sweden
ISBN 978-3-319-90214-2 ISBN 978-3-319-90215-9 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90215-9 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018941886 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover credit: Photograph by C. J. Hibbard, 1920. Courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer International Publishing AG part of Springer Nature The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Acknowledgements
In the mid-1990s, I had the marvelous chance to team-teach a class with Prof. Dionicio Valdés at the University of Minnesota, called “Mexico, Sweden and the United States,” where we compared the Mexican and the Swedish immigrants in the United States from a labor perspective. The class consisted of masters and Ph.D. students from the University of Minnesota and Lund University in Sweden, and it included an introduction to the Minnesota Historical Society (MHS) in St. Paul. Reference specialist Debbie Miller introduced us to its rich sources. I happened to see the index to the Minnesota Commission of Public Safety and its Women’s Committee that made a survey of gainfully employed women in 1918, and I had the crazy idea of initiating a research project on women’s work and politics in Minneapolis during the First World War. The project lasted much longer than I could foresee, since so many other obligations came in between, but it eventually came to an end. Dionicio Valdés and Debbie Miller have been most helpful and supportive over the years and they have read
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