Sharon Mcconnell Sidorick: 1 book
Silk Stockings and Socialism
Philadelphia's Radical Hosiery Workers from the Jazz Age to the New Deal
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
The 1920s Jazz Age is remembered for flappers and speakeasies, not for the success of a declining labor movement. A more complex story was unfolding among the young women and men in the hosiery mills of Kensington, the working-class heart of Philadelphia. Their product was silk stockings, the iconic...
