My grandmother - a seamstress - arrived about 10 years later, receiving what these women fought for.
She and my grandfather - a bagel baker who belonged to The Workman's Circle - were always firm trade unionists, and their daughters, who became teachers and members of the UFT, were raised to be so as well.
As a doctor and a lawyer union membership has never applied to me personally but this history still makes me very proud.
“Out of their sheer benevolence, our sacred job creators granted workers a 40 day work week and stopped locking workers inside deadly fire traps. They even started cleaning the bathrooms!”
Another great book detailing tenement life is, of course, Betty Smith's great "A Tree Grows In Brooklyn." Chilling details on tenement "air" shafts etc.
This is just the kind of history that conservatards wouldn't want taught in schools - might make the poor dear job makers feel bad, you know.
Raj sang this in an episode of What's Happening. It's been in my head for 40 years.
Related, how great of a show was What's Happening?
Just change the story and tell them it was rich white men leading the strike and they will allow it to be taught.
My grandmother - a seamstress - arrived about 10 years later, receiving what these women fought for.
She and my grandfather - a bagel baker who belonged to The Workman's Circle - were always firm trade unionists, and their daughters, who became teachers and members of the UFT, were raised to be so as well.
As a doctor and a lawyer union membership has never applied to me personally but this history still makes me very proud.
I've also visited and concur that the experience is visceral.
"Warm and upset", huh? Well okay then.
“Out of their sheer benevolence, our sacred job creators granted workers a 40 day work week and stopped locking workers inside deadly fire traps. They even started cleaning the bathrooms!”
See, it works.
Wonder how much support these workers got from the women’s suffrage movement.
https://www.kcur.org/news/2...
Does anyone know the tune? I'd love to hear The Uprising of the Twenty Thousand.
It sorta works with “Turkey in the Straw,” of all things.
Including Newt Gingrich
https://www.washingtonpost....
My friend and neighbor worked in sweatshops as a child. She told me they put her in the closet when the inspectors showed up.
My part of Canada probably has better weather than your part of the US. Right now, it 5 Celsius and sunny (that's about 41 Fahrenheit).
Another great book detailing tenement life is, of course, Betty Smith's great "A Tree Grows In Brooklyn." Chilling details on tenement "air" shafts etc.
Now those are HATS!