“They’re fighting for women’s rights, we’re fighting for equal rights for Turkish people, and that’s the only difference”: Foreign Workers Organize in the Footsteps of the Women’s Movement, The Netherlands, 1974–1980

Andrew D.J. Shield

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“They’re fighting for women’s rights, we’re fighting for equal rights for Turkish people, and that’s the only difference”: Foreign Workers Organize in the Footsteps of the Women’s Movement, The Netherlands, 1974–1980

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Palgrave Macmillan, (2017), 115-145

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-49613-9_5

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Immigrant workers’ organizations (especially on the left) gained strategic and rhetorical inspiration from the women’s movement, such as organizing demonstrations to provoke media attention, and calling for equal pay or affirmative action.

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Shield, A. D. J. (2017). “They’re fighting for women’s rights, we’re fighting for equal rights for Turkish people, and that’s the only difference”: Foreign Workers Organize in the Footsteps of the Women’s Movement, The Netherlands, 1974–1980. In Genders and Sexualities in History (pp. 115–145). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49613-9_5

“They’re fighting for women’s rights, we’re fighting for equal rights for Turkish people, and that’s the only difference”: Foreign Workers Organize in the Footsteps of the Women’s Movement, The Netherlands, 1974–1980

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