Immigrant girl, radical woman, a memoir from the early twentieth century, Matilda Rabinowitz ; with commentary and original drawings by Robbin Légère Henderson ; afterword by Ileen A. DeVault
Type
Label
Immigrant girl, radical woman, a memoir from the early twentieth century, Matilda Rabinowitz ; with commentary and original drawings by Robbin Légère Henderson ; afterword by Ileen A. DeVault
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
resource.biographical
autobiography
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Immigrant girl, radical woman
Oclc number
973159730
Responsibility statement
Matilda Rabinowitz ; with commentary and original drawings by Robbin Légère Henderson ; afterword by Ileen A. DeVault
Series statement
An ILR press book
Sub title
a memoir from the early twentieth century
Summary
Matilda Rabinowitz's illustrated memoir challenges assumptions about the lives of early twentieth-century women. She describes the ways in which she and her contemporaries rejected the intellectual and social restrictions imposed on women as they sought political and economic equality in the first half of the twentieth century. Rabinowitz devoted her labor and commitment to the notion that women should feel entitled to independence, equal rights, equal pay, and sexual and personal autonomy. Rabinowitz (1887-1963) immigrated to the United States from Ukraine at the age of thirteen. Radicalized by her experience in sweatshops, she became an organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World from 1912 to 1917 before choosing single motherhood in 1918. "Big Bill" Haywood once wrote, "a book could be written about Matilda," but her memoir was intended as a private story for her grandchildren, Robbin Légère Henderson among them. Henderson's black-and white-scratchboard drawings illustrate Rabinowitz's life in the Pale of Settlement, the journey to America, political awakening and work as an organizer for the IWW, a turbulent romance, and her struggle to support herself and her child
Table Of Contents
The journey to America -- The wretched refuse of your teeming shores -- A new career -- Bridgeport and socialism -- I fell in love with him -- Little Falls -- A gallery of radicals -- After Little Falls -- Greenville, South Carolina : "the toughest job" -- New York, Greenwich, World War I -- A new life (vita) -- Ben returns -- Washington -- Ballardvale, Massachusetts, Greenwich Village, Cos Cob, St. Louis
Classification
Contributor
Subject
- Biography
- Jüdin
- Jewish women
- Socialist Party (U.S.) -- Biography
- Einwanderin
- 1900-1999
- History
- Socialist Party (U.S.)
- Women immigrants
- Labor unions + Organizing -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Industrial Workers of the World -- Biography
- Women in the labor movement -- United States -- Biography
- Industrial Workers of the World
- Arbeiterbewegung
- Labor unions + Organizing
- USA
- Autobiographies
- Rabinowitz, Matilda, 1887-1963
- Jewish women -- United States -- Biography
- United States
- Women immigrants -- United States -- Biography
- Frauenbewegung
- Women in the labor movement
Content
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- Biography
- Jüdin
- Jewish women
- Socialist Party (U.S.) -- Biography
- Einwanderin
- 1900-1999
- History
- Socialist Party (U.S.)
- Women immigrants
- Labor unions + Organizing -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Industrial Workers of the World -- Biography
- Women in the labor movement -- United States -- Biography
- Industrial Workers of the World
- Arbeiterbewegung
- Labor unions + Organizing
- USA
- Autobiographies
- Rabinowitz, Matilda, 1887-1963
- Jewish women -- United States -- Biography
- United States
- Women immigrants -- United States -- Biography
- Frauenbewegung
- Women in the labor movement
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