We Stand As One: The International Ladies Garment Workers Strike, New York, 1909 (Civil Rights Struggles Around the World)
By Laura B. Edge.
Description
"Girls, from the bottom of my heart, I beg you not to go back to work. We are all poor, many of us are suffering hunger, none of us can afford to lose a day's wages. But only by fighting for our rights, and fighting all together, can we better our miseries; and so let us fight for them to the end!" Nineteen-year-old shirtwaist striker, November 1909 In 1909, on the Lower East Side of New York, thousands of immigrant women--many only teenagers toiled at shirtwaist factories. For up to twelve hours a day, seven days a week, they hunched over sewing machines, making wome...
ISBN(s)
0761346090, 9780761346098
