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Unorganized Women: Repetitive Rhetorical Labor and Low-Wage Workers, 1834-1937

Unorganized Women: Repetitive Rhetorical Labor and Low-Wage Workers, 1834-1937

Greer, Jane

Hardcover

Series: Composition, Literacy, and Culture

General ReferenceSocial MovementsWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0822947552
ISBN13: 9780822947554
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: Feb 14 2023
Pages: 212
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.87 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Across a range of industrial, domestic, and agricultural sites, Greer shows how repetitive discursive performances served as rhetorical tools as women workers sought to rescript power relations in their workplaces and to resist narratives about their laboring lives. The case studies reveal noteworthy patterns in how these women's words helped to construct the complex web of class relations in which they were enmeshed. Rather than a teleological narrative of economic empowerment over the course of a century, Unorganized Women speaks to the enduring obstacles low- and no-wage women face, their creativity and resilience in the face of adversity, and the challenges that impede the creation of meaningful coalitions. By focusing on repetitive rhetorical labor, this book affords a point of entry for analyzing the discursive productions of a range of women workers and for constructing a richer history of women's rhetoric in the United States.

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