caa a22 4500 388103590 CHVBK 20180307125329.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199912 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0020859000115184 doi S0020859000115184 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0020859000115184 DeVault Ileen A. Narratives Serially Constructed and Lived: Ethnicity in Cross-Gender Strikes 1887-1903 [Elektronische Daten] [Ileen A. DeVault] On 1 August 1893, already feeling the pinch of economic downturn, management at the Pray, Small & Co. shoe factory in Auburn, Maine, posted new wages for its employees. Twelve days later, facing their first lower pay checks, female stitchers in the factory walked off their jobs. The union which represented the stitchers declared the shop non-union a week later and called for all of its members to join the stitchers' strike. Only about a dozen male workers answered this call, as the two most highly-skilled groups of male workers, the lasters and the shoe cutters, remained on the job. These workers belonged to their own separate unions, which had either already agreed to the new wage list (the cutters) or were in the middle of negotiations over it with the company (the lasters). It took the cutters another week before they decided to join the stitchers' action; it would take the lasters a month and a half and a citywide expansion of the strike to make the same decision. Copyright © Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis 1999 International Review of Social History Cambridge University Press 44/S7(1999-12), 33-52 0020-8590 44:S7<33 1999 44 ISH https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020859000115184 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020859000115184 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- DeVault Ileen A. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Review of Social History Cambridge University Press 44/S7(1999-12), 33-52 0020-8590 44:S7<33 1999 44 ISH CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge