women clothing workers

"A biography of Clara Lemlich, who stood up for the rights of workers in clothing factories"--Provided by publisher.

An illustrated account of immigrant Clara Lemlich's pivotal role in the influential 1909 women laborer's strike. It describes how she worked grueling hours to acquire an education and support her family before organizing a massive walkout to protest the terrible working conditions in New York's garment district.

Rebecca, granddaughter of the recently deceased Esther Gottsfeld, the last survivor of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire, looks for answers to some of the questions and inconsistencies in her grandmother's accounts of the famous conflagration, while being hounded by a persistent historian who believes Esther was not telling the whole truth.

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.

Seventeen-year-old Annie Shapiro sparks a strike after walking out of work as an act of speaking out against unfair wages. Includes a readers' theater script and performance tips.

Chronicles the events surrounding the 1909 International Ladies Garment Workers Union strike, in which twenty thousand workers from five hundred shirtwaist factories went on strike to demand better hours, higher wages, and safer working conditions.