| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.2

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Book Review

United Apart: Gender and the Rise of Craft Unionism. By Ileen A. DeVault. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004. xii, 244 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8014-2768-1. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8014-8926-1.)

Situating her research within the framework of the new institutional labor history, Ileen A. DeVault analyzes gender and the rise of craft unionism by paying particular attention to workers' perceptions of their actions and the serial complexity of their identities. She observes that workers held a number of identities simultaneously, acting as union members (or not), as men or women, wage earners or homemakers, husbands, wives, parents, or children, as people from various racial and ethnic groups, and as skilled or unskilled workers. Her focus is on how these multiple identities framed the individual's action at a particular moment and how workers' strike experiences reinforced gendered divisions of labor and labor organizing. Through a detailed investigation of some forty strikes that occurred during the years when the Knights of Labor dissolved and the American Federation of Labor (AFL) surged forward, DeVault explores the complex ways gender interacted with trade union identities to marginalize women's voices and interests.

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