Composition, Literacy, and Culture
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Composition, Literacy, and Culture

Repetitive Rhetorical Labor and Low/No-Wage Workers

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Composition, Literacy, and Culture

Repetitive Rhetorical Labor and Low/No-Wage Workers

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Across a range of industrial, domestic, and agricultural sites, Greer shows how repetitive discursive performances served as rhetorical tools as women workers sought to rescript power relations in their workplaces and to resist narratives about their laboring lives. The case studies reveal noteworthy patterns in how these women's words helped to construct the complex web of class relations in which they were enmeshed. Rather than a teleological narrative of economic empowerment over the course of a century, Unorganized Women speaks to the enduring obstacles low- and no-wage women face, their creativity and resilience in the face of adversity, and the challenges that impede the creation of meaningful coalitions. By focusing on repetitive rhetorical labor, this book affords a point of entry for analyzing the discursive productions of a range of women workers and for constructing a richer history of women's rhetoric in the United States.

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Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Year
2023
ISBN
9780822989790
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Rhetoric
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction: Working Women, Working Words
  8. Chapter 1: Weaving New Identities: Mill Girls and the Lowell Offering, 1834–1845
  9. Chapter 2: Service(able) Rhetorics: Repetition, Standardization, and Household Workers, 1877–1902
  10. Chapter 3: Revisiting Imitatio, Reinforcing Neighborly Networks of Solidarity: Appalachian Farm Women and the Moonlight Schools, 1911–1920
  11. Chapter 4: Piecework: Rhetorical Accrual at the Donnelly Garment Company, 1933–1937
  12. Afterword: Working Women, Working Words: From the Past to the Present, at Home and Abroad
  13. Notes
  14. Works Cited
  15. Index