We Stand as One: The International Ladies Garment Workers Strike, New York, 1909

by Laura B. Edge

Book Overview

"Girls, from the bottom of my heart, I beg you not to go back to work. We are all poor, many of us are suffering hunger, none of us can afford to lose a day's wages. But only by fighting for our rights, and fighting all together, can we better our miseries; and so let us fight for them to the end "Nineteen-year-old shirtwaist striker, November 1909 In 1909, on the Lower East Side of New York, thousands of immigrant women--many only teenagerstoiled...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761346090
• ISBN13: 9780761346098
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books (Tm)
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 11 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 6 to Postsecondary