Comments | sogucited: Socialist Sunday School Yule-tide Greetings.

sogucited

Socialist Sunday School Yule-tide Greetings.

Dec 20, 2005 11:16

I mailed this to some of you, but I'm going to post it because I love it. Researching the 1913 Garment workers' strike here in Rochester this summer, I found this beautiful print of the the 1910 Rochester Socialist Sunday School holiday greeting. It was in the Socialist Scrapbooks at UR. Even though I didn't really have time, I transcribed it ( Read more... )

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lovableatheist December 20 2005, 16:55:25 UTC

that's awesome.

How's your work on the 1913 strike coming along? Is there any way I could read it one it's done?

sogucited December 20 2005, 17:57:13 UTC

it's coming...slowly and painfully. 55 pages down... and oh probably another 30 or so to go. Which I somehow have to write in the next 12 days around hosting the family xmas at my place and all.
yes, you can definitely read it and I want to read yours on Italian women workers!
I have been struggling with information on Italian women. I just recently decided to focus on Jewish women. I was planning to do it on women workers' activities and concerns in general but I started to feel like I was duplicating Jensen's piece and there's a lot of material on the Jewish community in Rochester and very little on Italian women. The Italian women here were very involved and very militant. But the local English-language newspapers were strongly biased against Italians and labor and there's almost no primary materials, besides reports of arrests. There were Italian-language papers but I haven't been able to locate them. And since, I don't read Italian I don't know what I'd do with them, if I found them.

lovableatheist December 20 2005, 18:36:28 UTC

that's a shame about the lack of Italian-language sources. I read an essay by Jennifer Guglielmo about the Uprising of the 20,000 in a volume edited by Franca Iacovetta and Donna Gabaccia. Guglielmo argues that historians have characterized Italian women as passive because they've ignored Italian-language sources that talk about walk-outs and militant actions that Italian women participated in. When you think about it though, you would have to understand the language to even begin to look at these sources, which is a shame.

I'll eventually post my essay on my lj, so keep an eye out for it (I'll try to remember to remind you about it too).

aquagirl December 20 2005, 17:16:00 UTC

That is fabulous! Do you mind if I link to this entry in my eljay?

sogucited December 20 2005, 17:46:07 UTC

link! re-post! print on giant broadsides and plaster the town!

satori1970 December 22 2005, 19:13:44 UTC

i hope you don't mind but i've added you as a friend. i've just finished my master's in history and have been teaching Intro to Women's Studies courses at our university for over a year. thought we might be able to exchange ideas/thoughts, etc... . i teach in a very small town of southeast kansas. very red state. not a lot of diversity. still a culture shock having grown up in los angeles. sigh.

sogucited December 29 2005, 04:28:42 UTC

hey! thanks!
I should be done my MA in history in a couple weeks and start teaching Intro to Women's Studies at the same time.

I am happy to have someone to discuss these things with. Any teaching advice you can offer will be very very much appreciated. I'm so nervous about it. I did TA and did a teaching practicum but it was all in history. I took a lot of women's studies classes but they were almost all women's history.
And I feel like there's no way I can adequately prepare because I have to finish my thesis in the same time frame. Ugh.