Silk Stockings and Socialism: Philadelphia's Radical Hosiery Workers from the Jazz Age to the New Deal

Author: Sharon McConnell-Sidorick
Content: xii + 280 pp., ill., bibl., index
Publication date: 2017
Publisher: Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press
Publication notes: Revised dissertation, Temple University
Description: First history of the American Federation of Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers, which embraced cultural changes and radicalism to promote workers' rights.
Main subject: Business and Work
Politics
ISBN: 9781469632940 (cloth); 9781469632957 (pap.); 9781469632964 (ebook)
Citation: McConnell-Sidorick, Sharon. Silk Stockings and Socialism: Philadelphia's Radical Hosiery Workers from the Jazz Age to the New Deal. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. Sylvia. Accessed January 22, 2026. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL1590.
Updated: 09-16-2025

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