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Author Edge, Laura Bufano, 1953-

Title We stand as one : the International Ladies Garment Workers' Strike, New York, 1909 / by Laura B. Edge.

Publication Info. Minneapolis : Twenty-First Century Books, [2011]
©2011

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 Bristol, Main Library - Young Adult Materials in Adult Department  YA331.89 ED35    Check Shelf
Description 160 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Series Civil rights struggles around the world
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The cause I now pledge -- A human tide -- Gathering storm -- The uprising of 20,000 -- Factories fight back -- Suffragists join the fight -- The mink brigade -- College women join their sisters -- The end and the beginning -- The Triangle Fire.
Summary 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.
Subject Strikes and lockouts -- Clothing trade -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
Women clothing workers -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
Women in the labor movement -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
ISBN 9780761346098 library binding alkaline paper
0761346090 library binding alkaline paper
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