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Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
2010, c2011
Language
English
Description
Relates the story of seventeen-year-old Annie Shapiro, who launched a months-long strike with her fellow clothing workers in 1910 Chicago. Includes a script for a reader's theatre based on this story, a glossary, and further reading sources.
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