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Silk Stockings and Socialism
The hosiery workers of Philadelphia created a vibrant union by mixing Jazz Age culture with militant socialist politics.
Sharon McConnell-Sidorick is an activist and labor historian and the author of Silk Stockings and Socialism: Philadelphia's Radical Hosiery Workers from the Jazz Age to the New Deal. She grew up in Kensington, Philadelphia.
The hosiery workers of Philadelphia created a vibrant union by mixing Jazz Age culture with militant socialist politics.