Silk Stockings and Socialism
The hosiery workers of Philadelphia created a vibrant union by mixing Jazz Age culture with militant socialist politics.
1 Article by: Sharon McConnell-Sidorick
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.