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Date Created
1917-05
Description
Pamphlet promoting the work of the National Women's Trade Union League of America. The NWTULA advocated for better working conditions, hours, and wages for women and girls.
Cover illustration of a young woman factory worker. Her apron and the smoke from factory smokestacks behind her are caught by the wind. Illustration by Winifred Bromhall, best known for her work as a children's book artist.
Excerpts:
p. 2 "According to the 1920 census, eight and one-half million women in the United States, 10 years of age and over, earn their own living and contribute to the support of others. This represents a half-million increase over 1910....
One out of every 4 women wage-earners is in one of the manufacturing and mechanical industries."
p. 3 "A Way Out? Trade union organization--more and more of it--with its machinery for the collective merchandising of the day's work.
Voices here and there, raised in individual protest, are not heard above the din of the modern industrial machine. But the collective voice of millions of women who know for themselves the toll exacted for unnatural strain will compel a hearing for their industrial ills."
Corporate Name Subject
National Women's Trade Union League of America; Women's Trade Union League
Topical Subject
Labor; Women in the labor movement; Women labor union members
Genre
pamphlets
Local Genre
text
Type
Text
Digital Format
application/pdf
Language
eng
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This material is in the public domain in the United States and thus is free of any copyright restriction. Acknowledgement of Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is requested.
Collection
Adèle Goodman Clark Papers
Source
Eight and One-Half Million Women Workers!, 1917 May, M 9 Box 48, Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University.
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M009_b104_i001.pdf