A Wide-Awake Woman: Josephince Roche in the Era of Reform - Softcover

Mcginn

9780942576429: A Wide-Awake Woman: Josephince Roche in the Era of Reform

Softcover

ISBN 10: 094257642X ISBN 13: 9780942576429

Publisher: Colorado Historical Society, 2003

When Josephine Roche challenged Big Ed Johnson for the Colorado governorship in 1934, an editorialist wrote: "Miss Roche has proved beyond a doubt that a wide-awake woman is more valuable than a drowsy man." She lost the election, but the sentiment remained true. As a mining executive, Roche helped end decades of labor strife. As a New Deal policy maker, she helped frame the Social Security Act. And as director of the United Mine Workers Welfare and Retirement Fund, she helped create and administer a boldly ambitious employee benefits program. "My hobby is humanity," Roche once declared, but that understated the case. Working for humanity was her life's passion - as this first-ever biography of Roche illustrates.

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About the Author:

Elinor McGinn, Ph.D., is the author of "At Hard Labor: Inmates at the Colorado State Penitentiary." She has written numerous articles on Colorado history, most recently "Female Felons: Colorado’s Nineteenth-Century Inmates." A Wide-Awake Woman is the seventh volume in the Colorado History series.

Review:

"This well-researched and written work is the first biography of Roche. In her meticulous review of Josephine Roche's life, Elinor McGinn provides her readers with a biography of interest to mining and non-mining readers alike." -- Dawn Bunyak, Mining History Journal, 2006

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