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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Ileen A. DeVault. United Apart: Gender and the Rise of Craft Unionism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 2004. Pp. xi, 244. Cloth $49.95, paper $19.95.
As Ileen A. DeVault describes in her introduction, in recent decades "labor history" has trended away from its early focus on organized labor to become the history of the working classes, blending at various times in various ways with broader social history, women's history, and other genres. In this fascinating work, DeVault brings the lessons of working-class and women's history back to the traditional concerns of labor historians, and labor history is richer for it. This book is a description of labor activism that illuminates the complexity and patterns of the past without attempting to impose any restrictive historical explanation.	1
DeVault began her research by compiling, primarily from contemporary local newspaper accounts, the stories of forty strikes across the United States between 1886 and 1903, the years from the formation of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) until the creation of the Women's Trade Union League. These years also saw the final dissolution of the Knights of Labor, and the differences between the old and new organizations forms one of DeVault's many points of analysis. The strikes were selected in part for their cross-gender nature: that is, both men and women participated in them. Through her analysis of these strikes, DeVault attempts to decipher the social context of labor organization at the turn of the twentieth century. Under what circumstances, for example, did male workers support a walk out by "girls" in a separate department of the same factory, and when did they condemn their actions?	. . .

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