Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. “We Win a Place in Industry”: Black Women and the Birth of the Power Laundry Industry
Chapter 2. A Miniature Hell: Working in a Power Laundry
Chapter 3. The 1912 Uprising of New York City’s Laundry Workers
Chapter 4. The Rise and Fall of Local 284: Black Women Laundry Workers’ Activism in the Era of the
Chapter 5. “It Was Up to All of Us to Fight”: Communist Laundry Organizing during the Great Depress
Chapter 6. Aristocrats of the Movement: The Uprising of Brooklyn’s Laundry Workers
Chapter 7. “It Was Like the Salvation”: New York City’s Laundry Workers Join the CIO
Chapter 8. The “Democratic Initiative”: Fighting for Control of the Laundry Workers Joint Board
Chapter 9. “Putting Democracy into Action”: The Laundry Workers’ Double V Campaign
Chapter 10. “Everybody’s Libber”: The Laundry Workers’ Civil Rights Unionism in the Postwar Era
Chapter 11. “We’re Just Not Ready Yet”: The Ousting of Charlotte Adelmond and Dollie Robinson from
Epilogue: Building a Democratic Initiative in the Twenty-First Century
Notes
Index
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