Uprising of the 20,000 Centenary
just over a hundred years ago this week, women working in the sweatshops of the Lower East Side in New York went on strike, and they stayed out for three months. They won union recognition, the right to overtime pay, and a limit to their working hours - and for the first time working women became a political force to be reckoned with. Reporter Laura Sheeter went along to the celebrations to mark the centenary of the 'Uprising of the 20,000'. |
