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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Nan Enstad. Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture, and Labor Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. New York: Columbia University Press. 1999. Pp. xii, 266. Cloth $49.50, paper $17.50.

Participation in consumer culture, argues Nan Enstad, was not necessarily a conservative experience for American workers. Using the 1909–1910 strike of New York City garment workers—the so-called Uprising of the Twenty Thousand—as a starting point, Enstad seeks the sources of working-class identity and consciousness among the predominantly female labor force. Enstad reasons that neither the popular press nor labor leaders recognized or acknowledged the women's own uniquely class-specific sense of self. The press sought to discredit the strikers by emphasizing their disorderliness, showy if not fashionable clothing, and boisterous immodesty. The well-intentioned but presumptuous labor leaders who assisted the "girls," as they called them, regarded and rendered the working women as serious, poorly clad, and frail from overwork and exploitation. Neither image, Enstad aptly observes, accorded wage-earning women any political or social agency. . . .

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