Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
8-1995
Abstract
Dana Frank argues that Seattle's working people rode an unprecedented wave of power and control from the World War I boom economy to the early 1920s. During that era, not only did Seattle trade unions give some grudging limited support to unionization among women, African Americans, and Japanese Americans, they also sought to create a political economy controlled by and for the working class. Leaders of the Seattle Central Labor Council attempted to wield the "purchasing power" of union members to carry out consumer boycotts against "unfair" retailers in the city, to establish worker "owned" cooperative enterprises such as grocery and dry goods stores, barbershops, laundries, and theaters.
Publication Title
Pacific Historical Review
Volume
64
Issue
3
First Page
459
Last Page
460
DOI
10.2307/3641029
Required Publisher's Statement
Published by: University of California Press
Article DOI: 10.2307/3641029
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3641029
Recommended Citation
Friday, Chris, "Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing, Gender and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1919-1929 – Book Review" (1995). History Faculty and Staff Publications. 24.
https://cedar.wwu.edu/history_facpubs/24
Subjects - Topical (LCSH)
Labor unions--Political activity--Washington (State)--Seattle--History--20th century; Labor movement--Political activity--Washington (State)--Seattle--History--20th century; Boycots--Washington (State)--Seattle--History--20th century
Subjects - Names (LCNAF)
Frank, Dana. Purchasing power
Geographic Coverage
Seattle (Wash.)--History--20th century
Genre/Form
reviews (documents)
Type
Text
Language
English
Format
application/pdf
