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We Shall Not Be Moved: The Women's Factory Strike of 1909

by Joan Dash · 1996

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Describes the conditions that gave rise to efforts to secure better working conditions for the women working in the garment industry in early twentieth-century New York and led to the formation of the Women's Trade Union League and the first women's strike in 1909.

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young adult
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short · 165 pages

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