Author: Mrs. John Van VorstPublisher: New York, Doubleday, Page
ISBN:
Category : Child labor
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
The Woman who Toils
Author: Mrs. John Van VorstPublisher: New York, Doubleday, Page
ISBN:
Category : Child labor
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Woman Who Toils
Author: Bessie Van VorstPublisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1429040890
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
This landmark work of social investigation was written in 1903 by two women of New York's privileged class, who assumed names and toiled as factory girls in a number of eastern U.S.locations.
The Woman who Toils
Author: Mrs. John Van VorstPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Child labor
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The Woman Who Toils
Author: Marie Van VorstPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
'The Woman Who Toils' is a fascinating investigative journalism account conducted by two sisters, Bessie and Marie Van Vorst. In writing the book, they began an undercover investigation into women and child factory laborers by finding jobs in factories under aliases. Bessie worked in a plant in Perry, New York, a knitting mill near Buffalo, and a Pittsburgh pickle factory, among other places, using the name "Esther Kelly". Marie Van Vorst found employment in a shoe factory in Lynn, Massachusetts, and a cotton mill in Columbia, South Carolina, under the alias "Bell Ballard". In their book the Van Vorsts portrayed the troublesome working and living conditions they had observed, and their consequences for women and girls. Bessie appealed for a more compassionate attitude towards these employees. Van Vorst also noted that factory women enjoyed the independence afforded them by paid labor and therefore delayed marrying. "I never saw a baby nor heard of a baby while I was in town", Van Vorst wrote after nearly three weeks spent in Perry. She also discussed sociability and the discipline of factory work as a dangerous alternative to family unity.
Toil & Trouble
Author: Jessica SpotswoodPublisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1488089272
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
“This powerful and diverse collection is perfect for fans of female-led fantasy stories. No damsels in distress to be found here.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) There’s nothing more powerful than a witch who believes in herself. Women accused of witchcraft. Fearsome girls with arcane knowledge. Toil & Trouble features fifteen stories of girls embracing their power, reclaiming their destinies, and using their magic to create, to curse, to cure, to kill . . . and to live. A young witch uses social media to connect with her astrology clients—and with a NASA-loving girl as cute as she is skeptical. A priestess of death investigates a ritualized murder. A bruja who cures lovesickness might need the remedy herself when she falls for an altar boy. A theater production is turned upside down by a visiting churel. A water witch uses her magic to survive the soldiers who have invaded her desert oasis. And in the near future, a group of girls accused of witchcraft must find their collective power . . . and destroy their captors. NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF A TEEN WITCH! Featuring stories by: Tehlor Kay Mejia Andrea Robertson Tess Sharpe Lindsay Smith Brandy Colbert Shveta Thakrar Robin Talley Nova Ren Suma Zoraida Córdova Brenna Yovanoff Kate Hart Jessica Spotswood Anna-Marie McLemore Emery Lord Elizabeth May “This collection brings together short, witchy stories from fifteen brilliant YA authors . . . It’s a whole lot of magical fun, and a definite must-read for all the witches in your life.” —Bustle “The collective impact is undeniably resounding.” —Booklist (starred review) “[A] provocative, eclectic collection.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Through Women's Eyes, Combined Version (Volumes 1 & 2)
Author: Ellen Carol DuBoisPublisher: Bedford Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 944
Book Description
Now available in two-volume splits as well as the combined version. Through Women’s Eyes: An American History was the first textbook in U.S. women’s history to present an inclusive narrative within the context of the central developments of U.S. history and to integrate written and visual primary sources into each chapter. The result, according to authors Ellen Carol DuBois and Lynn Dumenil, was to "reveal the relationship between secondary and original sources, to show history as a dynamic process of investigation and interpretation rather than a set body of facts and figures." The enormous success of the first edition confirms that the field of U.S. women’s history was ready for a ground-breaking textbook that focuses on women from a broad range of ethnicities, classes, religions, and regions and that helps students understand how women and women’s history are an integral part of U.S. history. Click here to read about packaging with the Women and Social Movements Database!
Undercover Reporting
Author: Brooke KroegerPublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810163519
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
In her provocative book, Brooke Kroeger argues for a reconsideration of the place of oft-maligned journalistic practices. While it may seem paradoxical, much of the valuable journalism in the past century and a half has emerged from undercover investigations that employed subterfuge or deception to expose wrong. Kroeger asserts that undercover work is not a separate world, but rather it embodies a central discipline of good reporting—the ability to extract significant information or to create indelible, real-time descriptions of hard-to-penetrate institutions or social situations that deserve the public’s attention. Together with a companion website that gathers some of the best investigative work of the past century, Undercover Reporting serves as a rallying call for an endangered aspect of the journalistic endeavor.
The Nine-Tenths
Author: James OppenheimPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732683265
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Nine-Tenths by James Oppenheim
The Tobacco Worker
Author: E. Lewis EvansPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Author: