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OverviewEva McDonald Valesh was one of the Progressive Era's foremost labor publicists. Challenging the narrow confines placed on women, Valesh became a successful investigative journalist, organizer, and public speaker for labor reform.Valesh was a compatriot of the labor leaders of her day and the ""right-hand man"" of Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor. Events she covered during her colorful, unconventional reporting career included the Populist revolt, the Cuban crisis of the 1890s, and the 1910 Shirtwaistmakers' uprising. She was described as bright, even ""comet-like,"" by her admirers, but her enemies saw her as ""a pest"" who took ""all the benefit that her sex controls when in argument with a man.""Elizabeth Faue examines the pivotal events that transformed this outspoken daughter of a working-class Scots-Irish family into a national political figure, interweaving the study of one woman's fascinating life with insightful analysis of the changing character of American labor reform during the period from 1880 to 1920. In her journey through the worlds of labor, journalism, and politics, Faue lays bare the underside of social reform and reveals how front-line workers in labor's political culture-reporters, investigators, and lecturers-provoked and informed American society by writing about social wrongs. Compelling, insightful, and at times humorous, Writing the Wrongs is a window on the Progressive Era, on social history and the new journalism, and on women's lives and the meanings of class and gender. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Elizabeth FauePublisher: Cornell University Press Imprint: Cornell University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780801484650ISBN 10: 0801484650 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 20 December 2004 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsReviewsEva Valesh was a journalist who altered the facts of her own life, a labor leader with an unending drive for social mobility, and a feminist who married a playboy.... Class and gender politics abound in this biography of a woman who sought to challenge the status quo. - American Journalism; Elizabeth Faue nicely links the history of journalism to that of labor and reform politics. She also connects the ambitious Valesh to the uneven nature of class identity in America and to the authenticity that a 'working-class' background brought to both newspaper work and reform circles during the Progressive era. - American Historical Review; Elizabeth Faue knew she had found a juicy subject in the pioneering woman journalist Eva McDonald Valesh. Faue informs us on the book's very first page that Valesh 'dyed her hair red into her eighties, smoked black twisted cigars, and wore green silk pajamas.' An abundantly talented writer, labor activist, and social climber who played up her authentic origins as a 'daughter of toil' to win friends and influence thought in the highest circles of New York society, Valesh is no easy-to-categorize working-class heroine. Harvard Business History Review Author InformationElizabeth Faue is Professor of History at Wayne State University and the author of Community of Suffering and Struggle: Women, Men, and the Labor Movement in Minneapolis, 1915-1945. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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