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Book Review


Sticking to the Union: An Oral History of the Life and Times of Julia Ruuttila. By Sandy Polishuk. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. xxvi, 273 pp. Cloth, $75.00, ISBN 1-4039-6239-1. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 1-4039-6240-5.)
Sandy Polishuk's oral history of Julia Ruuttila is a welcomed addition to the historical literature of labor activism in the Northwest. The author was Ruuttila's friend and is an activist herself. Polishuk, however, did not let her admiration for the narrator cloud her scholarly task: this is an unvarnished account of one woman's personal and political struggle in the face of abusive husbands, illegal abortions, poverty, and single parenthood. As one of the first volumes in Palgrave's Studies in Oral History series, Sticking to the Union sets high standards for subsequent series contributors to match. . . .
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