This is the grave of Clara Lemlich. I am going to do something different today. Since I chose Lemlich as one of the people to profile in Organizing America (and if you don't buy this book, my life will become a living hell of poverty),...
textile industry
On March 14, 1882, textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts walked off the job. Thirty years later, a much more famous textile strike would take place in that town. That one.
On January 14, 1977, the International Ladies Garment Workers Union lost a union election in Los Angeles after the Immigration and Naturalization Service raided the workplace, deporting many of the.
You know, it's not like the U.S. couldn't do this too. In fact, we do when it comes to Chinese prison labor in supply chains. But we choose not to generally because we basically don't care about anything but ensuring cheap clothing and cheap meat...
On June 3, 1824, the Pawtucket, Rhode Island factory strike, one of the first strikes in American history, ended. This is a great entry point into the difficulties of labor.
On April 1, 1913, workers at the Draper textile factory in Hopedale, Massachusetts walked off the job in a strike led by Italian anarchists fighting for basic human rights. The.
On September 13, 1932, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers led a successful strike of garment workers in Baltimore. This strike was a sign of the growing organizing of the 1930s that would eventually change the world for much of the American working class. The garment industry...
In the 1970s, a significant movement developed in the sweatshops of Chinatown in New York, where workers demanded labor rights. They were represented by what was left of the old.
On January 25, 1926, the Passaic textile strike began. This was the first really important strike that the Communist Party ran and one that provided the workers a marginal victory.
On June 3, 1900, the International Ladies Garment Workers Union formed when delegates from 11 local unions of garment workers from New York, Newark, Baltimore, and Philadelphia met to form a larger union. The ILGWU would be a major player in American unionism over the...
On April 4, 1936, the Strutwear strike in Minneapolis was won by the workers, a significant victory not just for the workers of Minnesota, but specifically for the women who.
On April 1, 1951, members of the Textile Workers Union of America struck the Dan River Mills in Virginia, part of an attempt to organize the southern textile mills. This.