Women Strikers Occupy Chain Stores, Win Big
The 1937 Woolworth’s Sit-Down
July 2012
Format: Saddle-sewn · 60 Pages
$4.95 U.S. · $5.50 CAN · €3.99 E.U.
ISBN 9781608462452
Haymarket Books
Format: Saddle-sewn · 60 Pages
$4.95 U.S. · $5.50 CAN · €3.99 E.U.
ISBN 9781608462452
Haymarket Books
Recommended for These Courses
- Business and Economics: Economics / General
- Business and Economics: Labor and Industrial Relations
- History: General
- History: Social History
- International Relations: General
- International Relations: Political Freedom and Security
- Political Science: General
- Political Science: International Relations
- Political Science: Labor and Industrial Relations
- Political Science: Politics of Revolution
- Sociology: Gender Studies
- Sociology: General
- Women's and Gender Studies: General
Description
This sparkling story of intrepid young women is not just a strike narrative of the Great Depression, but echoes down to our own times. Dana Frank is always on the side of those who are willing to fight! Nelson Lichtenstein, Director, Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy at the University of California, Santa Barbara
Frank does an excellent job of creating articulate arguments out of a complex blend of history, economics, and current events. Library Journal
Woolworth's was the Walmart of the 1930s. The women were exploited and sexually harassed. This is the exciting story of how they fought back against corporate exploitation and oppression.
Frank does an excellent job of creating articulate arguments out of a complex blend of history, economics, and current events. Library Journal
Woolworth's was the Walmart of the 1930s. The women were exploited and sexually harassed. This is the exciting story of how they fought back against corporate exploitation and oppression.
About the Author
Dana Frank is a professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the author of Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America, and the award winning Buy American. She has published essays in the Washington Post, SF Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News and The Nation.